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Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts06/08/2026, 09:23:59 AM

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.

Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts06/01/2026, 09:19:57 AM

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.

Reddit r/AskHistorians Top Posts05/25/2026, 09:26:03 AM

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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