We’re back in action with the Digest after our revolutionary hiatus. It felt weird folks, not having anything to do on Sunday. But we do what we can! Today’s digest is naturally going to be a wee bit smaller, but there’s been a flood of fantastic Floating Features over the past month that are worth calling out! So buckle on in, and enjoy some fantastic history!

First, the important META threads in order. More for the history of the event, if you know what I mean.

* AskHistorians will remain in limited operation until further notice

* Taking AskHistorians Community Input on Next Steps

* In a week, AskHistorians will return to normal operation until further notice

* We're Back! ...for now.

I’ll level with you on something history readers. I initially started to draft this up chronologically, but word kept destroying my formatting and after an hour of messing with it I realized that as soon as someone upvotes something its going to change how they show up in the thread anyway. So don’t sweat it, just dive on in. I’ll see you all again next week, and perhaps we’ll have something of a “regular” return.

Plus, if you want to stay informed about the current situation and what things might look like going forward, make sure to check out this thread. This has also been the kick we needed to more properly set up a Mastodon account, which you can find here: https://historians.social/@AskHistorians

Normally we’d also take some time to shout out those fascinating yet overlooked questions. There haven’t exactly been that many questions to overlook the fast month, as I’m typing this its been less then 36 hours since we reopened, but here’s a few to wet your whistle.

* /u/crrpit wants to know What did Hitler think about baseball?

* Sneaking in as the first question after the reopening, /u/TheHondoGod asked There's a lot of questions about PTSD among pre-modern soldiers, but how did societies in your field handle and help women, children or civilians who developed PTSD like symptoms? What was there for them?

* /u/avantbored asked How did early modern inventions circulate and exhibit in early nineteenth century Europe?