The Extra History Suggestion Survey is OPEN until 7/9

Hello, You Amazing Patreon Members!

Our next Extra History theme is Women in History!

Queens and revolutionaries, sinners and saints, artists and scientists—women have always been a part of the human story. However, until recently women's history was an under-studied and recognized field, and that still has impacts on the amount of attention paid to them in both academic and popular history. The only way to fix that is to set aside time to do it—so that's what we're doing! This vote will focus on Women's History topics, whether that be a biography of a prominent woman like Amelia Earhart or Dowager Empress Cixi, or a movement or event that prominently featured women such as the New York Garment Strikes or contentious history of birth control laws.

Want to hear about investigative journalist Nellie Bly, who intentionally got committed to the women's mental asylum at Blackwell's Island Prison in order to write an expose (she also set the world record for circumnavigating the globe)? What about the Civil War nurse Clara Barton who founded the American Red Cross?

And since our usual timeframe cutoff of 1940 might preclude us from covering some interesting figures, we're opening it up to 1950—which puts into play legendary WWII spies like Nancy Wake (the Allies' most decorated servicewoman), or resistance leaders like Sophie Scholl, a German university student who formed a group to resist the Nazis.

You can enter YOUR suggestions for the topic HERE in this form.

Some notes about suggestions:

• 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 7/9.

We can't wait to read all your suggested topics!