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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.
Gather round one and all for another fantastic edition of the Sunday Digest! The best dang compilation of threads I have the enjoyment of curating. We have an amazing assortment of posts this week, so make sure to take lots of time to browse through. Don’t forget to thank those great contributors and throw some upvotes their way!
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 175 - The 275th Anniversary of Culloden with Darren Layne With u/Funkyplaid!
We’ve got some good ideas in the Thursday Reading and Rec!
Tons of fun in the Friday Free for All!
A couple of interesting and useful META’s this week. Like Are there a lot of shadow bans on /r/AskHistorians?
A potentially useful PSA. Why most of the answers are removed?
That wraps us up for another week folks. We’ve got a great AMA coming up, the deadline for the conference is soon (Get those abstracts in!) and lots of other good stuff! I’ll see you next Sunday.
Another week means another round of fascinating, yet overlooked questions. Show some appreciation for the questions that caught your eye.
/u/anthropology_nerd asked How extensive was Native American involvement in New England shipping and whaling?
/u/megami-hime asked What happened to the Umayyad family after the fall of Cordoba?
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.