Today:
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 readers! We have another fantastic Sunday Digest ahead of us, with a plethora of awesome answers and perfect posts. Don’t forget to show your thanks and upvote your favorite authors.
We had the final floating feature for this series. The Marginalized Historians Floating Feature: A special feature to highlight contributions from historians who identify as members of marginalized groups or minorities
Rules Roundtable XVII: Answers Must Not Be Primarily Links or Quotes.
Lots of good suggestions in the Thursday Reading and Rec.
Friday was A celebration of Juneteenth and African-American History.
Plus another fantastic Free For All.
Check out the indomitable /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero in the Saturday Showcase!
There’s also another META thread: Is Big History allowed to be discussed here? If not, why?
And a second! Why are all the answers so long in this sub and no one uses tldr?
That wraps us up for the day folks. Have a browse through the threads, keep yourselves safe out there, and I’ll see you next week!
#The Real Questions
Welcome to Week 2 (and I guess the first official installment, since last week was a trial run) of my new recurring series on "the real questions" of /r/AskHistorians! Here, we honor the more atypical questions that get asked here: the bizarre, abnormal, strangely niche or oddly specific, interestingly worded, or otherwise amusing questions that make me say, "Finally, someone is asking the real questions." The premise is still being fine-tuned, but this week I want to give these shoutouts:
Shout out to all the interesting yet overlooked questions that caught our eye and our hearts this pass week.
/u/Ragadash7 asked about Did Canada have slaves?
/u/gazbar is really stretching in Did people in the middle age stretch?
/u/ADustedEwok asked Did Sir Mix-A-Lot have an effect on male dating habits?
Thanks to /u/zvlastnivec for answering my question How are still life paintings used as primary documents in social history?