Organizers said they were galvanized to hold the event when they saw nearly all academic conferences going online or being canceled altogether due to the coronavirus pandemic. In one day, the community crowdsourced the entire $3,000 goal for the conference. This September the AskHistorians community has planned a digital conference, which is likely the first academic conference to be held over Reddit. "This is actually a different way of thinking about history and approaching it that I absolutely love." "The questions we get tend to come at from a personalized perspective - 'What was it like to be me in history?'" said Stevenson, who is now a site moderator. When did horses become a "thing for girls"? What should I expect to happen after I submit peacefully to Mongol rule? I am a governor of a village at the height of Genghis Khan's empire. The questions users ask on the site are sometimes repetitive ("People want to know a lot about Hitler," one moderator points out), but they often approach the discipline of history in unconventional ways.
The subreddit currently has 2.3 million unique visitors per month, along with a podcast and a Twitter presence. While there is room for disagreement, the site is heavily moderated. Reddit users can ask questions about history, and subject matter experts answer in lengthy but readable replies, often citing their sources or research. The AskHistorians community, which lives on Reddit, is a special place on the internet. ("We can infer from that that a good mother was supposed to take pride in raising moral, Christian children who were good at their labors," she wrote in her answer.) Such was one of the first questions Cait Stevenson, a medieval historian, answered on the AskHistorians subreddit in 2015. What would make a mother proud of her child in the Middle Ages?
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