August edges on, but not without another fantastic edition of the AskHistorians Sunday Digest. Featuring only the very best craftsmanship from local reddit artisans, skilled in the production of brilliant history posts. Don’t forget to show your appreciate to all the hard working contributors, upvote your favorite, and have a browse through the regular weekly fare!

• Announcing the Best of July Award Winners

• /u/beckita85 joined us for a fantastic AMA on Female Pirates!

• Tuesday Trivia: ​Black Atlantic! This thread has relaxed standards—we invite everyone to participate!

• Drop by the Thursday Reading and Rec thread!

• Lots of good times to be had in the Friday Free for All!

• META time! What is the best way to respond when the question contains a clear factual error?

• Would it be possible and polite to want to know the real names of flaired users here (professionally published names) so we can cite them and see their published works?

And that wraps me up for another week. It continues to be hot up here, so I hope you can keep comfortable wherever you might be. I’m pulling for you, we’re all in this together. And I’ll see you again, next week!

Sunday is also the moment each week we take to shout out those fascinating questions that caught your eye but still cry out for the attention of an expert! Feel free to post up your own, or those you came across.

• /u/cashewkingofdetroit asked How did Soviet appraisals of the success (and failures) of US activities in Vietnam differ from their American counterparts’?

• /u/KevTravels asked In Gangs of New York, there's an African-American character (Jimmy Spoils)who runs with the Irish gang that Leo DiCaprio's character becomes the leader of. How likely was it for there to be a man of color running with ethnic European gangs in the mid or late 19th century?

• /u/Tatem1961 asked Why did Brittany replace Latin with French as it's official language, 300 years before the Kingdom of France did? And why not use the native Bretagne language instead of French?