"I feel kinda lost and felt something is missing in my knowledge to understanding why the world is it is today...I am just a curious kid. (edu level: high school science student, to-be undergraduate)" reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1lhhibi/how_what_to_learn_from_history_today
While the focus on these posts is US-Iran history, the political history of foreign policy and broad international relations history is also making an appearance www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
"Historians of reddit, can you shed some light on this...so I can understand it better" reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1lhuufv/did_the_us_start_the_hostility_with_iran_in_the/
This is another common refrain on these questions, "Asking for a friend" because users are making direct comparisons of their own life and seeing personal connections between now and the past www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...