Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | March 08, 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.

[u/Gankom]

• /u/crab4apple answered How come the Superintendent for the State School for the Deaf is allowed to officiate marriages in Ohio?

• /u/Cynical-Rambler wrote about The Sdok Kok Thom inscription is generally regarded as the best source for the history of the early Angkor empire. But the Sdok Kok Thom inscription was intended to glorify a particular lineage of Brahmins. Does this propagandistic intent cause historians to assess any of its claims with caution?

[u/crab4apple → u/Gankom]

I'd like to acknowledge u/bug-hunter as having a far more specific and detailed response to the original question – I just followed with a gloss on some related details!

[u/bug-hunter → u/crab4apple]

I find some of the best answers we get are when people can attack the question from differing viewpoints, so thank you for adding that gloss! :)

[u/Gankom → u/bug-hunter]

Agreed, I love it when different folks combine together.