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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.
Welcome to the first Sunday Digest of May! We’ve got a selection packed full of good stuff for you today! Browse through, enjoy the reading, and don’t forget to thank the brilliant writers who put so much work into this stuff.
Before we get to the rest of the list, take a moment to check out Rules Roundtable X: Informed, Complete Answers - The Speculation and Placeholder Rules.
Then its vote time! Best of April Voting Thread!
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And then victory. For a time… Thank you everyone who supported us the past day. The Admins have listened and removed the unmoderated Chat feature from the site. We deeply appreciate the support of our readers and the wider mod community who stood with us.
/u/John_G_Turner joined us for I'm John Turner, author of "They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty." AMA about the Pilgrims, the Mayflower Crossing, Plymouth Colony, and… well, it’s AMA, so anything else!!
Get a second great AMA from /u/lincolnmullen in I'm Lincoln Mullen, author of "The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America," as well as the digital project "America's Public Bible." Ask me anything you like about American religious history, digital history, or computational historical research.
Find lots of good book recommendations in The Thursday Reading and Recommendation Thread!
Tons of fun as always in the Friday Free For All!
The Saturday Showcase! Featuring /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero!
Another week, another meta thread. Why is it everytime I see an interesting top post appear in my feed here all of the comments are deleted? Even the ones with a lot of Upvotes? Why?
That finishes us off for this week! Enjoy the compilation, and stick around for some of the fantastic events coming up this week. From AMA’s to Floating Features. We’ve got a bunch of awesome things in the near future.
Spend a moment thinking about the interesting yet overlooked questions that still wait for an experts attention.
/u/fojiaotu asked Did Alexander the Great encounter Buddhism?
/u/dt7cv asked How centralized were the Safavids?
/u/phi_array asked How did Franco the Spanish dictator managed to survive WWII?
/u/lord_mayor_of_reddit gave a good explanation of how the New York Times became the "paper of record."