A Recap of AskHistorians 2023-03-01 to 2024-03-07

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Popular This Week: You might have clicked too early, so here are the responses to some of the most upvoted questions from the past week:

• "Are there any theories to explain why the Red Army's sexual violence in WWII was so egregious?" by /u/Inside-Welder-6281

• "The first Dune book was written in 1965 and references Jihad throughout. Would an average reader in the United States have been familiar with that term? Was it politically charged at the time?" by /u/bug-hunter

• "What is the full context of the Admiral Yamamoto quote stating that Japan will lose a 1 year war with the US?" by /u/handsomeboh

• "The show Shogun claims that in the year 1600 only the Portuguese knew how to reach Japan, is this true?" got answers by /u/Kouta_no_Futon and /u/ParallelPain

• "What happened to kids with autism or Down's back in the day?" by /u/Zugwat

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Things You Probably Missed: Great stuff flies under the radar every week! Here is a selection of responses the Mod Team enjoyed, but didn't get the attention they deserved:

• "Why was Unitarianism such a common feature of liberal Christianity in the 19th century?", by /u/bug-hunter

• "If the ancient Greeks thought that how you died was how you were in the Underworld, were a lot of young Greeks killing themselves or putting themselves in dangerous positions to be able and strong when they inevitably go to the Underworld?", by /u/cleopatra_philopater

• Legal systems have a burden of proof, science has standards of proof (et al.), does history and historiography have similar hard benchmarks?", by /u/restricteddata

• "Is it true that most pre-industrial cities were limited to an area of no more than 8 square miles?", by /u/thestoryteller69

• "Why does it seem as if only Arab African countries were able to escape French neocolonialism but not black African countries?", by /u/holomorphic_chipotle

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Still Looking for an Answer: Sometimes great questions don't get answered. Yet. Maybe you have the chops to give these the answer they deserve though?

• “IHow common was bride kidnapping and sexual trafficking of women in Eastern and Central Europe in the 1930s?”

• "How did bidets get so universally popular in Japan?"

• "What was the job market like for pilots returning from WW2?”

• And if you have only a few minutes to kill, be sure to check this week's "Short Answers to Simple Questions" thread, as you might see something you can help with!

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Flair Profile of the Week: Looking for some old classics to read? This week the randomly selected flair profile is that of /u/l_mack, flaired for 'Canadian and Labour History.'

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Fun Things You Might Have Missed:

• Tuesday Trivia: Women’s Rights
• AskHistorians Podcast Episode 226 – The Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 with /u/thebigbosshimself
  

• In honour of International Women’s Day yesterday (and Pitbull and Dolly’s catchy new remix), check out /u/EdHistory101’s answer to the question “Dolly Parton had a famous song "9 to 5", yet every full time job I have had is 8 to 5. Did people work one hour less in the 80s? How did we lose that hour?” where she connects the song to second-wave feminism and how the personal was political.

• There’s still time to say "Hi" in yesterday's Friday Free-for-All

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Features Coming Up::

• 2023-03-12: The coming week’s theme, and the Tuesday Trivia casual thread, will be about Heritage & Preservation. So bring all your best questions and get your write ups ready for the TT thread!

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Cat Corner

Gotta soak up that sun when you can!

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Plenty more you might have missed though, so as always, don't forget to check out the most recent Sunday Digest! For a complete archive of past newsletters, check out /r/BestOfAskHistorians.

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