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r/AskHistorians weekly picks: May 10–17, 2026

Five fully-cited, flaired-historian answers from r/AskHistorians for the week of May 10–17, 2026: Ian Kershaw on Mein Kampf's unreadability, the Donner Party myths debunked with four specialist citations, the Orientalist roots of the camel-archer trope, Soviet korenizatsiya explained, and why European cavalry abandoned the bow — with a Napoleonic-era surprise.