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Previous Today: 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. submitted by /u/AutoModerator [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

We all know the drill. Countless upon countless hours every single day spent on debating what was the best machine of the war, with never ending statistics, factors and war time anecdotes being used, as to try to prove that the one's favorite tank in particular, was the best. The question for all the deer profesional historians is: Isn't that kind of silly? All things considered, while tanks were very important in ww2, as to my limited knowledge they never played a truly decisive role on any front, even more so, when there were many instances, where the country that's for the most been agreed ..read more

Did they expect to fail or succeed socially and economically? submitted by /u/GlomerulaRican [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I know they're fairytales, but all fairytales and local myth start from somewhere. Like all the different version of Arthurian legends. What about Disney princess? What was the first one for Cinderella or sleeping beauty? Who started it? I already know the origins of Mulan and Pocahontas submitted by /u/Catitriptyline [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Why did the people transform a relatively free country into what it is now? submitted by /u/Final-Shopping-7957 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

So I was doing reading on Agrippina, and a lot of the sites claim that Agrippina convinced Claudius to adopt Nero and make him Claudius’s successor. I am just looking for confirmation to see if Roman historians talk about this. If this is the case, I would appreciate a passage from a Roman historian eg. Tacitus. Thanks! submitted by /u/afunnydoode [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I was watching the samurai film Kubi, by Takeshi Kitano. One particular depiction of the violence and depravity of the era was by armed peasants who would target stragglers for loot as weapons, armor and heads were worth a lot. Several of the scavangers were recruited by Hideyoshi for the purpose of black ops, but how common was the practice of hiring armed peasants who hunted down samurai? Seems like the samurai class would want to discourage peasants from getting into the habit of killing their social superiors, even if they are useful for now. submitted by /u/JayFSB [visit reddit] [commen ..read more

I'm seeing a lot of confusing and conflicting perspectives - would love some help making sense of it all. On the one hand, people say the president who was overthrown wasn't elected democratically - but appointed by the Shah who was the ruler of Iran since 1921. On the other hand, people say the president was elected democratically and overthrown by a British backed coup. So what really happened, is anything still up for debate? Or are all major facts agreed upon (by most people) submitted by /u/Accomplished-Carry-6 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Im sure near the end of the war before it became clear that he had killed himself, the allies at least discussed the possibility of his capture? submitted by /u/monksunited [visit reddit] [comments ..read more