Another month down, and after some putzing, its time to announce the September 'Best Of' awardees.
Taking this month's Users' Choice Award is newcomer /u/fianarana, and their insight for 'How did Moby-Dick, a peculiar commercial failure, become a "Great American Novel?"'.
Meanwhile, for the Flairs' Choice Award, it was old hand /u/itsallfolklore who fascinated with "What are the origins of the practice of telling the bees?".
No "Dark Horse Award" for the month, with a non-flair taking top honors outright!
Finally, for this month's 'Greatest Question', voted on by the mods, the eyes fell upon "How did the computer game Oregon Trail become ubiquitous in US schools during the 80s?", asked by /u/takeoffdpantsnjaket, and with some excellent responses from /u/jbdyer and /u/snowblindalbino.
As always, congrats to our very worthy winners, and thank you to everyone else who has contributed here, whether with thought-provoking questions or fascinating answers. And if this month you want to flag some stand-out posts that you read here for potential nomination, don't forget to post them in our Sunday Digest!
For a list of past winners, check them out here!
The humble bee warrants many awards; not so sure of my humble answer, but the thought is nevertheless appreciated. Thanks!
Congratulations! :)
What a crew-- /r/askhistorians is literally the only Reddit sub I ever recommend to students and colleagues. So much expertise and generosity represented therein, it's amazing at times. Great responses from all.
H/T to /u/jbdyer on the Oregon Trail question-- it was a great response. I just piggybacked in with some secondary stuff since I was curious.
As always, a huge congratz to /u/fianarana, /u/itsallfolklore and /u/takeoffdpantsnjaket!
Congratulations and well done to all the worthy winners