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Every two weeks: the highest-upvoted questions and rigorously-sourced answers from r/AskHistorians

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-10-12

Earworms, hired help, and a king's ransom: seven answers from r/AskHistorians, September 28-October 11, 2026

Seven of the fortnight's most-upvoted r/AskHistorians questions, each with its answerer, score and every source the answer names — from 19th-century housemaids and earworms to Valium, freedom suits, a king's ransom and Brazil's abolition.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-09-28

Silphion, studded leather, and why Saudi Arabia wasn't sanctioned: six answers from r/AskHistorians, September 13-27, 2026

Six of the fortnight's most-upvoted r/AskHistorians questions, each with its answerer and source trail intact, from Cyrene's lost silphion and D&D's studded leather to why Riyadh escaped sanctions after 9/11.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-09-14

Pre-colonial Australia, Falklands surrender, Uganda Railway: five sourced answers from r/AskHistorians, August 31-September 13, 2026

A selective August 31-September 13 digest of five source-rich r/AskHistorians answers, from pre-colonial Australian maritime contact and the 1982 Falklands garrison to indentured Uganda Railway labor, Soviet PPSh drum reloads, and Jim Henson's Dinosaurs.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-08-31

Daniel Lewin, Barbary slavery, tunnel rats: five sourced answers from r/AskHistorians, August 16-30, 2026

A selective August 16-30 digest of five source-rich r/AskHistorians answers, from Daniel Lewin's Flight 11 record and Barbary slavery estimates to Greek divine parentage, Vietnam's tunnel rats, and the Church of England after the English monarchy.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-08-03

r/AskHistorians picks: July 19-August 2, 2026

A selective two-week digest of sourced r/AskHistorians answers on the 1814 burning of Washington, Zulu military mobility, and Roman clothing and modesty, with clear evidence limits for high-score threads that could not be fully verified.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-07-20

r/AskHistorians picks: July 5–19, 2026

A selective two-week digest of sourced r/AskHistorians answers on Disneyland automation, World War II tank destroyers, Louis XIV court rumor, medieval knightly training, and the American-French alliance.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-06-29

AskHistorians weekly picks: June 22–28

This week’s selected r/AskHistorians digest covers partial June 22–28 coverage, led by Hilary Buxton’s AMA on colonial disability and World War I medical care, Anna Law’s AMA on migration and citizenship, and eight available curated answers.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-06-22

r/AskHistorians weekly picks: June 15–22, 2026

This week's digest covers selected highlights from the June 15–22 cycle (~42% retrieval). Three AMAs yielded substantive content: Rachel Grace Newman (Colgate) on Mexico's foreign-educated elite and the gender/geography gaps in 20th-century scholarship programs; Brendan Greeley (Princeton PhD candidate, ex-Bloomberg/FT) on the distinction between his Almighty Dollar trade book and his academic dissertation on the English guinea; and Will Quam on why Chicago's black bricks are soot, not fire, and what the FTC says a brick legally is. Two AMAs (Rod Phillips on cats, Colonial Williamsburg on the Virginia Declaration of Rights) had no retrievable host answers due to Reddit API pagination. Six curated answers fully extracted: Romania's Iron Guard as a challenge to Toscano's "fascism-as-joke" thesis; Joseon legal protections for the enslaved class; Romans' moral rather than structural view of decline; France's deliberate post-Revolutionary suppression of regional languages; Puritan migration to the Netherlands and Ireland before New England; and the 1968 PRI structural context that produced El Halconazo.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-06-15

r/AskHistorians weekly picks: June 9–15, 2026

Four back-to-back AMAs anchored this week on r/AskHistorians — Marc Stein on the five abandoned Philadelphia bicentennial world's fair plans and the Nixon-Rizzo "queer courtship," Dr. Ketil Slagstad on the intersex frameworks trans patients used to access care from the 1920s, Rod Phillips on 12,000 years of cat-human history, and Peter Samsonov on German tank procurement cartels and Kniepkamp's near-fatal influence on the Pz.IV. The Weekly Round-Up and Sunday Digest curated five fully retrieved answers: u/Cedric_Hampton refuting Fran Lebowitz's AIDS-and-the-arts hierarchy claim, u/restricteddata on the historiographical gap in pre-modern Indian science, u/thefourthmaninaboat on the submerged obstacles at Juno and Sword beaches, u/TywinDeVillena on the Era Hispanica dating system, and a pair of historians on the structural collapse that created China's warlord era.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-06-08

r/AskHistorians weekly picks: June 1–8, 2026

The week was anchored by Dr. Dylan Gottlieb's June 2 AMA on his Harvard University Press book Yuppies — a social history of how Wall Street captured a generation of elite graduates in the 1980s, with coverage of law-firm labor conditions and the Hoboken arson-for-profit story. The June 5 Weekly Round-Up curated eight answered questions spanning ancient Rome, Cold War Czechoslovakia, funk music history, material culture, Red Army tactics, US constitutional history, and education policy. The June 7 Sunday Digest highlighted one answer on John Brown's pikes at Harpers Ferry.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-06-01

r/AskHistorians weekly picks: May 25–June 1, 2026

Two expert AMAs anchored this week — Dr. Bradley J. Sommer (u/DrHistoryBrad) on U.S. labor history, unions, and Rust Belt deindustrialization, and Dr. Dwaipayan Banerjee (MIT) on India's first indigenous computer (TIFRAC) and postcolonial technological sovereignty. A confirmed answered thread addressed how Armenia and Georgia kept Christianity through 15 centuries of non-Christian rule. The round-up spotlighted flaired historian u/lukeweiss (Imperial China | Daoism) and flagged Dr. Dylan Gottlieb's upcoming June 2 AMA on yuppies and 1980s New York City.

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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts
2026-05-25

r/AskHistorians weekly picks: May 17–25, 2026

Six entries from r/AskHistorians' May 17–25 cycle, each with historian credentials and explicit source citations: u/ted5298 exposes Paul Carell as a Wehrmacht-apologist source corrupting Wikipedia; u/jonwilliamsl clarifies medieval parchment-making's "running water"; a flaired historian traces pre-20th-century gay social spaces through French police records; u/blacksheepussy separates Belleau Wood's real achievement from propaganda legend; u/TheMob-TommyVercetti dismantles the training-cost theory for the longbow's disappearance; and Amanda Podany's Weavers, Scribes, and Kings surfaces as the best entry into ancient Near Eastern history.

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