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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.
We’ve hit and passed the middle mark of July! Not only that, but it been a particularly bountiful week. Not only for my garden (I’m swimming in squash. I literally can’t give them away anymore.), but also for super fantastic awesome history posts! So pull up a chair, grab yourself a drink and some snackage, and settle on down for some fascinating reads.
Don’t forget to check out the regular weekly features, upvote your favorite answers and thank those awesome authors.
A panel of our finest experts came together to answer every question about Hamilton: The Musical - Answering your questions on the musical and life during the Revolutionary Age.
/u/AllThingsMedieval joined us for an awesome AMA! I’m Dr Jitske Jasperse, here to talk about my book ‘Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet and Her Sisters’, which deals with material culture as a source for understanding elite women’s power. AMA!
It was a rather empty Thursday Reading and Rec.
/u/Klesk_vs_Xaero and /u/J-Force are the highlights of the Saturday Showcase!
Weekly META! Why must we censor and remove each comment just because a moderator deems it "not comprehensive" or sufficient?
And thus we come to the end of my rather large list, and once more I can return to the shadows to lurk for a week. Enjoy the history, keep it classy this week, and I’ll see all you fine folks next Sunday!
Raise a glass and toast the unanswered yet intriguing questions that caught our eye and our hearts this week.
/u/gg663 asked After WW2, was anything done to rectify the ‘Cargo Cults’ left behind on US occupied Pacific Islands?
A sadly deleted user asked Could a woman become a adventurer in the middle ages?
/u/scarter55 asked Did the emancipation proclamation change the course of the Civil War by keeping England and/or France out?
I just answered a question about the difference between oral and literary fairy tales, specifically as it pertains to the differences between the tales the Brothers Grimm published and the tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote!
(If your answer is not a good one and there are no good answers, I would say leave, no more answering the question.