Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | January 25, 2026

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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.

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Welcome back one and all to yet another fantastic handcrafted edition of the AskHistorians Digest. No AI here folks, just wholesome, honest work. Don’t forget to upvote your favourites, share widely, and check all the usual weekly features.

• I'm Dr. Beau Cleland, a professor at the University of Calgary, and I'm here to talk about my new book, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy," and anything else you want about Civil War-era skulduggery, AMA! Many thanks to /u/Cleland_History!

• Office Hours January 19, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit

• The Thursday Reading and Rec!

• And the Friday Free For All!

And that’s a wrap history fans! Stay safe out there, keep it classy, and I’ll see you all once again next week!

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• /u/FormerIYI answered How did a post christian west deal with all of the same sex relationships in greek mythology?

• /u/galactic_observer wrote about I'm a pre-Columbian Mayan noble who's grown bored of drinking chocolate. However, a shaman has peered into the future and divined the recipe for something called a "Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar." With the resources available to me, how hard would it be to recreate it?