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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.
No doubt u/Gankom will be along soon enough to round it up, but I wanted to draw a little bit of attention to a recent write-up that almost no-one will have seen, because it was a long way down the page by the time I got to it.
It started off as a bit of research into a comedy oddity, which is the way everyone else who has ever glanced at the story has told it – but when I went back to the contemporary newspapers, it took a sharp and unexpected turn into terrorism, murder, and what might well be state security frame-ups that are still being covered up to the present day. An AskHistorians exclusive!
It’s the Sunday Digest! Brace yourself history lovers, because we have a big un this week! Sunday is easily one of my favorite days of the week and this time its super sized. Packed with extra posts missed from last week, and the immense turn out from this week, we’re in for a pretty freaking great list. Hats off to the fantastic experts and the awesome posts they wrote. All you folks are amazing.
Don’t forget to check out our regular features, and upvote all the contributors!
Start things off with our new, special series. AskHistorians has grown and thrived over the past couple of years, and our rules have grown with it. Introducing the Rules Roundtables 2.0: The AskHistorians Mission. This is a way for the community to discuss and understand how our community runs.
The Thursday Reading and Rec thread!
There’s a fun filled Friday Free For All.
The saga of Italian fascism has reached week 123 in the Saturday Showcase with /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero!
Don’t forget our regularly arriving meta feature. Why is it in this subreddit that Reddit tells me there are 14 comments but I can't see any? It happened with almost every post that I see and only in askhistorians. Sometimes I get the privilege to see like 1-3 comments but never all the ones it tells me about Great timing for the new roundtables!
That wraps us up for yet another week. Fewer puns today I’m afraid! I know, it’s truly a sad moment, but it’s been an odyssey getting the digest up and at some point the word play part of your brain just shuts down. Have yourselves a fantastic time and I’ll see you next week!
Catching up on a few weeks.
/u/abrytan answered "Pictures and video footage of the Third Reich seems to depict Hitler walking around openly, or in an open topper car. Was there any danger of assassination?"
/u/amandycat answered "What were the dominant characteristics of "Grief" in the Early Modern Anglo-American traditions, especially as regards the death of children?"
Welcome to our final special digest of Black History Month. We’ve seen some great threads and had some great showcases. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed the answers and broadened your history horizons. We’ve got a fantastic AMA happening on Friday that continues many of the themes and will be well worth checking out! Dr Megan Hunt will be talking about 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!
/u/afro-tastic wrote about What strategies did the Civil Rights Movement in the US employ?
/u/EdHistory101 discussed When did black people in the United States become part of the professional work force?
And why not check out one of our amazing podcasts! The great /u/drylaw sits down with Professor Nicholas Buccola, author of "The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America".
Spare a moment for those fascinating yet unanswered questions that crossed our feeds this week. Perhaps a wondering expert will stop and take notice, or maybe they’ll inspire your questions in the future.
/u/syrufit19 asked about 1187 Siege of Jerusalem: Negotiating Surrender.
/u/LordScottYoung asked about Sweating Sickness and germs in the Tudors.
/u/LateNightPhilosopher is looking for the foundations of Did European Conquistadors build castles in the Americas during the early decades of conquest?