Another Sunday, another Funday for me! Welcome to another fantastic edition of the Sunday Digest! Where I spend a worrying amount of my time collecting some of the finest history threads AskHistorians has to offer! Covering all kinds of different fields and topics, hopefully there’s something for everyone!

There’s some special features this week that are well worth checking out, but don’t forget our usual weekly fare as well! Also take a moment to thank those brilliant contributors who put so much time into this great community.

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• The Atlanta-Area Murders Were Racially Motivated: A Short History of Anti-Asian Racism in North America

• We had a bit of a quiet Thursday Reading & Rec thread this week.

• From fascinating battles to top 10 posts, there’s always a ball in the Friday Free for All!

• Rules in this subreddit suck. I only ever see an interesting question I want to know the answers to with 10 removed comments from people that answered it. Can we do something about it and maybe ease up on what is considered an acceptable answer?

• Two-fer! Why Can I Never See Comments on Popular Posts in r/AskHistorians? (meta)

And that wraps me up for another week. Tis the first day of Spring up this way, so don’t forget to get a bit of fresh air at some point before your next dive into awesome history! See you next week folks!

Hi there! I hope it's okay that I post a question I actually asked the week before, because I'd like to ensure more people see u/sunagainstgold's wonderful answer:

I've come across Western men's (sometimes fantastical and obviously 2nd or 3rd hand) accounts of women in the Ottoman Empire and the harem system. Do we have any examples of Western women's accounts of Ottoman women? Or of elite Ottoman women's accounts of Westerners?, answered here.

We also like to spend some time each Sunday shouting out some really interesting question that still hope for the attention of an expert. Feel free to add your own, or call out any that caught your eye!

• /u/crrpit had the finest question since, I dunno some Hitler one, in So what was the popular reaction to the invention of sliced bread, anyway?

• /u/Soup_Commie asked How would a playwright or poet in Shakespeare's day get discovered?

• /u/Optimal_Trade asked If the USSR and its satellite states were more gender egalitarian than the West, why are post-Soviet Eastern European women stereotypically more focused on traditional femininity and attracted to traditional masculinity than Western European women are? Is it due to scarcity / competitive pressure?

Time for another installment of "The Real Questions", where we take a look at the wilder side of r/AskHistorians! Here, I give a shout-out to people asking the more atypical questions on this sub: questions that investigate amusing, unique, bizarre, or less common aspects of history, as well as ones that take us through intriguing adventures of historiography/methodology or niche/overlooked topics and moments in history. It's always a wide (and perhaps confusing) assortment of topics, but at the end of the day, when I see them I think, "Finally, someone is asking the real questions!"

Below are my entries for the week - questions with a link to an older response are marked with ‡. Let me know what you think were the realest questions you saw this week, and be sure to check out my full list of Real Questions.

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