Welcome back to another fantastic Sunday Digest! It’s a big un today, largest in a little while. We have got a huge collection of awesome history threads for you to peruse. So pull up a chair, get comfortable, and dive in!

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• A new podcast episode! AskHistorians Podcast Episode 148 - The Opium Wars part 1.

• /u/ckierner joined us for an awesome AMA: INVENTING DISASTER with Prof. Cynthia Kierner.

• Check out the latest Rules Roundtable XII: The Twenty Year Rule

• The Global Southern Histories Floating Feature: A thread open to all contributors to tell the histories of the Global South

• And The Gender Histories Floating Feature: An open thread that welcomes contributions from everyone on the histories of gender

• Yay a fun META thread for once! hey mods, i know you’ll remove this but i just wanna say thank you for making this such a professional and truly educational subreddit, keep up the good work :)

• Grab some reading ideas from the Thursday Reading and Rec thread!

• We’ve got a bangin Friday Free For All. Come tell me about your wargaming!

• /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero continues my favorite ongoing series in the Saturday Showcase.

• Get two META’s for the price of one this week with What am I doing wrong? I never seem to see question responses.

That wraps us up for another week! Enjoy the threads and I’ll see you next week. Have a fantastic time, and keep it classy readers!

Spare a thought for those interesting yet overlooked threats that caught your eye but still need an answer.

• /u/r3jjs asked Did anyone talk of boycotting the early American railroads due to the poor treatment of the workers?

• /u/cosmonaut205 asked Did "environmentalist" movements exist before the Industrial Revolution?

• /u/Throwaway46676 asked Historically, what tools were Zoroastrian scriptures written with?

Some great unanswered questions! I’m hoping they (mine first!) get answered.