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Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
Once more into the breach! We have ourselves another fantastic edition of the digest that’s just filled to the brim with awesome posts from fantastic writers. Have a browse through the list below and enjoy the thread! Don’t forget to upvote and thank the writers.
There’s some suggestions and requests for books in the Thursday Reading and Rec thread.
It’s a short but sweet Friday Free For All this week.
/u/Klesk_vs_Xaero continues in the Saturday Showcase!
That ends us off for another week. I was pretty busy during the week so might have missed some sadly. If I come across any I’ll make sure to add them in for next week. Have yourselves a great time and we’ll be back next Sunday!
We’re on to our third week of our Black History Month showcase! We here at AskHistorians have been teaming up with /r/BlackPeopleTwitter to showcase some fascinating parts of history. As part of that, every Monday we’ll have an entire tweet line up on Black history, every Sunday will revisit some old but gold threads, and on February 28th we’ll be joined by Dr Megan Hunt for a fascinating AMA on the Civil Rights movement and the ways in which our audience has actually been exposed to the movements through popular media and education! Mark your calendars now dear readers, because it’s going to be great!
Let’s hit the wayback machine and check out some awesome threads of yesteryear, and look to history to find some threads on history!
/u/Lyeta wrote about Did the Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States Include African-American?
/u/sowser and /u/youngmarshall discuss Why isn't slavery in Britain/British empire talked about as much as slavery in the USA?
Perhaps this thread, also from the amazing sowser, is particularly pertinent to our Black History Month showcase.
Once more we showcase some interesting yet overlooked questions that caught our eye and got us interested in history. Feel free to post up other questions I missed but you found interesting.
/u/tylercoder asked Did "Phoenicians" have an equivalent term for themselves?
/u/Amaryllis5 wanted to know How common were Asians in Europe in the 1700s?
/u/Tykuhn42 asked about How dangerous was life for a loyalist during the American Revolution?