Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | March 28, 2021

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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.

Gankom

We’ve come to the last Weekend of March, and with it a fantastic crop of history posts. We’ve got special meta posts, some fan favorite regular features, and the hundreds of threads churned out by our dedicated writers. Grab a set, put your feet up, and enjoy some time reading!

Is it possible to have a weekly thread where contributors are free to write about any topic of which they are particularly passionate or knowledgeable? (Usual standards apply)

That’s it for me today! Don’t forget to thank those brilliant writers, and keep your eyes peeled this week for some more fun filled special events!

jelvinjs7

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.

Gankom

We also like to take a moment each Sunday to call out some of the interesting yet overlooked questions which caught our eye and fired up our imagination. Feel free to post your own or any others that you want to bring more attention to!