Extra History Topic Suggestions are OPEN until 3/19!
Added 2024-03-12 19:47:39 +0000 UTCHello Historians, our next Extra History theme is The Rise to Power!
How a figure rises to power can tell you much about both them and the times they lived in. Whether it was the ideas which radicalized them, the deals they struck to get their hands on the levers of state, or the unique circumstances that convinced others they were the right person for the job.
This series will deal with the superhero (or supervillain) origin story of a historical figure, detailing how they became a major force in history. Generally, it will end with them achieving power or influence, ready to implement their ideas.
This need not be a political figure—it could a a religious one like Martin Luther, or even a scientist making their greatest achievement, so long as it focuses on the part of their career that involves the struggle or journey of discovery that put them where they needed to be.
You can enter YOUR suggestions for the topic HERE in this form.
Some notes about suggestions:
- Suggestions should feature content before the 1930s
- If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a full series, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do).
- Only one suggestion per person, please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed. Extra History Suggestion Survey is OPEN until 1/15.
We can't wait to read all your suggested topics!
Comments
I was torn between Adi Shankara and Songtsen Gampo. But I went with Songtsen Gampo as I think the founder of the Tibetan Empire would be great to teach people about a fascianting empire.
Herkles
2024-03-18 21:56:02 +0000 UTCone arrow by itself is easy enough to break, but a bundle of them together are far more difficult to break.
Jacob White
2024-03-18 17:28:47 +0000 UTCPerhaps a better choice for Extra Mythology?
Joshua Evans-Lowell
2024-03-18 06:11:16 +0000 UTCI suggested the early life of Timur. Interesting lens to discuss the middle east and central Asia post-Mongols, compare and contrast with the life of Genghis Khan
Joshua Evans-Lowell
2024-03-18 06:09:44 +0000 UTCAs the saying goes, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" well that saying may as well have been penned with the Borgias in mind. Starting off in Spain as the Borja, (pronounced Bor-Ha as the J in Spanish sounds as an H in English) they ended in Italy as the Borgia, I think Extra History could put Assassins Creed easter eggs in the Borgia series.
Jacob White
2024-03-16 21:48:52 +0000 UTCOliver Cromwell, Lord "Protectorate" of England
Vivian Griffith
2024-03-16 17:48:10 +0000 UTCI picked Bento Mussolini and the rise of fascism in Italy, I feel like it doesn’t get the justice it deserves. And since that word is misused frequently today, I think it would be great to show what it really means.
Harp Man
2024-03-15 14:27:51 +0000 UTCQueen Isabella of Spain could also be a good choice, not enough people give the queens their due.
Jacob White
2024-03-14 19:04:43 +0000 UTCAs in the prophet of Allah, Muhamad, blessed be his name.
Jacob White
2024-03-14 19:01:55 +0000 UTCI shouldn't be shocked, but I am. Look them up, the Borgia family is almost the embodiment of political nepotism and corruption. They are INFAMOUS beyond infamy. But their rise to power is astounding.
Jacob White
2024-03-14 18:56:32 +0000 UTCyasss!!!
Extra History
2024-03-14 18:43:44 +0000 UTCI'd love to see more science/philosophy based ones too!
Extra History
2024-03-14 18:43:09 +0000 UTCOoooo!
Extra History
2024-03-14 18:41:59 +0000 UTCThat would be amazing!
Extra History
2024-03-14 18:41:01 +0000 UTCWe really wish we could do more! We just don't have the time😢
Extra History
2024-03-14 18:40:44 +0000 UTCMargrete I, and the founding of the Kalmar Union. Because everyone needs to know about the woman who was possibly medieval Europe's greatest politician.
themunck
2024-03-13 21:03:14 +0000 UTCThere's a lot of figures from America's Gilded Age that match the theme of "Rise to Power." I'm going to choose Cornelius Vanderbilt since his railroads were the major growth of the industry (and I'm a rail enthusiast, so I'm biased lol).
RedWizzrobe
2024-03-13 04:55:58 +0000 UTCClarence Darrow started his days as a faceless railroad lawyer and ended as the greatest defense attorney of the 20th century. If that's not a meteoric change, I don't know what is.
Foxdoc
2024-03-13 04:50:38 +0000 UTCOr perhaps the Borgias of Italy and Assassins Creed fame?
Jacob White
2024-03-13 04:08:52 +0000 UTCAs awesome as that'd be, may I ask how it matches the theme of "Rise To Power"?
Jacob White
2024-03-13 04:07:43 +0000 UTCWhy not a series on the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang?
Jacob White
2024-03-13 04:06:28 +0000 UTCI think one on Archimedes would be a lot of fun! Mad scientist taking the world by a storm and leaving it a completely changed place
Kole Seeber
2024-03-13 02:43:30 +0000 UTCI would like to see a series on the Winter War
I want to roll down a hill into a river of beans
2024-03-12 23:52:48 +0000 UTCWhile the delicate nature of the topic (to say nothing of questions of how to depict him) might dissuade Extra History from doing a series on him, I went ahead and suggested Muhammad.
General Luigi
2024-03-12 23:09:00 +0000 UTCOnce again, and I will try this until it's done Weimar Germany and the Hirschfield clinic, the first LGBT research and conversion facility in the world. Bonus points if you do it during pride month
Atlas Hammond Novack
2024-03-12 22:45:38 +0000 UTCSo I have a gripe I'd like to share. Its been nearly 8 years since you guys did the video on Urbino, and you still have not done a video or series on who the Bogia family are. You ended the Urbino video with, "And the Borgia showed up, the end" like they're some commonly known group. WHO THE HELL ARE THE BORGIA?
Dapper Fox
2024-03-12 21:25:28 +0000 UTCThe unification of Switzerland from waring regions to a single country that survived on its expert mercenaries would be a fascinating deep dive!! 😁😁
Maximilian Vermilye
2024-03-12 20:14:08 +0000 UTC
