Día de Muertos on AskHistorians will be “r/AskHistoricalFigures” - BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

by sunagainstgold

Truly, what holiday is better worth celebrating in a history community than a día de los muertos?

For November 1-2, the Feast of All Saints and the Feast of All Souls, AskHistorians will become /r/AskHistoricalFigures!

We encourage you to post AND answer questions as people of the past. Novelty accounts welcome! (Or you can just post with your main account, and tell us in the post whether you are asking/answering in character).

Keep your answers accurate and reasonably comprehensive, lest you make the mods cosplay as the Inquisition. And please—take this chance to think about history through the eyes of people besides Hitler.

With all further ado in comments: from

  • 8 AM Central Time, Nov 1 (1 PM GMT)

to

  • 2 PM Central Time, Nov 2 (7 PM, GMT)

AskHistorians goes to the ghosts!

On Friday and Saturday, BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

goudentientje

What an awesome idea! Are there any previous threads like this?

Wattyear

Honestly cannot wait to see all sorts of fancy fonts for [removed]!