Suggestion Survey is Open through 8/19
Added 2020-08-17 19:01:01 +0000 UTCA small update first!
You may notice that today isn't a Thursday and that the voting deadline is a little bit different. That's because, with our production schedule, the last couple of votes have been right down to the wire for when we need the scripts prepped. So we'll be changing the topic vote & topic suggestion to be a little more flexible.
You'll still have an opportunity to suggest topics every month, but they won't be on a fixed date anymore. This will let Rob have more time to research and write even better scripts, and put less crunch on the whole team. We thank you for your patience, and we'll keep you updated if anything else changes. - A
Our theme for the month of August is Pivotal Battles
A series on the turning points of history. This can be a literal battle, like the Battle of Gettysberg or it could be a little more abstract like the Battle for Women's Suffurage. Either way, it should be a major turning points of history.
Some notes about suggestions:
- Only one suggestion per person please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed.
- 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).
- Anything that happened or started before 1929 is fair game to suggest. We typically don't cover more recent events, unless we're working with sponsors who can provide more documentation about that historical topic.
Comments
The Battle of Quebec in the French & Indian War, which saw the British take the last of the French continental possessions in North America, setting up both the French economic down-spiral (that itself would result in the French Revolution, Napoleon, the revolutions of 1848, WWI, etc) as well as opening up the western frontier for the American expansion (which would become Manifest Destiny and the country spanning from sea to shining sea)... Also this battle is interesting in that the commanding generals on BOTH sides would die
The Rogue Chief
2020-08-21 06:00:35 +0000 UTCBattle of Yarmouk, historically important, yet not as widely covered
Aaron Snakenberg
2020-08-19 17:10:44 +0000 UTCI know I've suggested it before but I put forth the Battles of Sitka which resulted in neither the Russians getting removed from the New World or the Tlingits being subjugated thus they had get used to and learn to live with each other.
Samuel D Tahami
2020-08-19 01:01:33 +0000 UTCDien Bien Phu 1954
Corey Brown
2020-08-18 16:17:59 +0000 UTCMy suggestion was the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which changed the course of North American history.
Joël Quenneville
2020-08-18 15:52:36 +0000 UTCBattle of Königgrätz. The decisive battle of the Austrian-Prussian war, it signaled the start of German unification. It changed the balance of power in central Europe from Austria to Prussia, and what state would be the dominant one in the formation of the German Empire. It's safe to assume that had the results been different, so would have been history, since Germany wouldn't have formed in the same way, with a highly militaristic Prussia at the helm. Nor it would have had such a prominant role on the later World Wars of the next century.
JohnnyElRojo
2020-08-18 14:01:33 +0000 UTCBattle of Badr
Benjamin Fouty
2020-08-18 03:57:48 +0000 UTCBattle of Borodino
General Luigi
2020-08-17 20:51:34 +0000 UTCBattle of Tours
Texas Gent
2020-08-17 19:29:58 +0000 UTCJohn Horse's slave/Seminole rebellion against the US government
sam
2020-08-17 19:18:45 +0000 UTC
