NEW Suggestion Survey! The theme is "Revolution!"
Added 2018-06-19 19:00:01 +0000 UTCPlease suggest topics that you think fit the theme "Revolution." This suggestion comes from our writer Rob Rath, who defines revolution as broadly as possible--political, scientific, artistic, whatever you can think of!
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Transport revolution, a smaller piece of the industrial revolution that is easier to look at, the radical change from horse carts to steam locomotives and immense economic and political and social aspects of said change.
Joe Korshoff
2018-06-22 20:02:19 +0000 UTCI suggested the Industrial Revolution. No revolution in history, not the American, Russian, Glorious, or Velvet Revolution has literally changed the very way humanity and society itself works in the way the Industrial Revolution did.
Will Cade
2018-06-22 17:23:39 +0000 UTCI suggested the Haitian Revolution. Anti-colonial and anti-slavery revolt that challenged the concept of white superiority.
saltking
2018-06-22 12:57:12 +0000 UTCI suggested the Mexican Revolution. A revolution that is pivitol to understanding modern mexican history. A revolution that lasted into the 1920s. If we are to understand Mexican Politics in the current day, we should look back onto this revolution. It is what for instance lead to the creation of the Sexiano(the single six year term Mexican Presidents get), it is what lead to Mexican Politicans not having re-elections till very recently. It is what lead to the PRI(Partido Revolucionario Institucional/Institutional Revolutionary Party) becoming the dominate party in Mexican Politics till recently. A revolution which changed society. A revolution which saw people like Villa and Zapata rise to prominice. A revolution where ideals of Anarchism and Socialism were common, where there was the shortest presidency in world history. A revolution was bloody and had turned the entire border between the US and Mexico into a quasi war called the Border war. A revolution which saw the US occupy Veracruz and invade Mexico to stop Villa. For all these reasons and more I want to see the Mexican Revolution be done.
Herkles
2018-06-21 17:34:04 +0000 UTCThanks so much. I hope they mention that WW1 was the breaking point for the country, and that the only way to have it stay together was if Nicholas was another “the Great.”
Lady Bug
2018-06-21 15:15:40 +0000 UTCFinally a theme that matches my constant spam of THE VERMONT REPUBLIC in every suggestion survey!
t.
2018-06-21 07:24:26 +0000 UTCit is one of the major events during the Chinese 'century of humiliation', and has direct consequences from the Opium Wars. I do want to look into more obscure events first, but this has potential for an episode.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-06-20 20:30:50 +0000 UTC<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar</a> The Great War mentions the timeline of Russia during WWI and how WWI affected their revolutions. It's a good place to start.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-06-20 20:27:46 +0000 UTCSpain in the 1400s is something I am quite interested in; turning from fractured kingdoms and the only islamic state in Western Europe into one of the most powerful and ruthless Catholic empires in history.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-06-20 20:26:29 +0000 UTCaye; Spartacus is well known and has been done before.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-06-20 20:23:35 +0000 UTCI don't know what's more surprising; that this has nothing to do with the IRA, or that Washington crushed a revolution. 'Whiskey you're the devil, you're leading me astray.'
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-06-20 20:22:27 +0000 UTCTaiping Revolution / Rebellion, I don't know too much about it, but from the reading I have done it seems really crazy. Some Chinese dude who said he was Jesus' little brother and started a massive and tremendously destructive war which was eventually put down by christian european countries who wanted to protect their profits.
Tobias Erlandsson
2018-06-20 19:16:44 +0000 UTCThat is a very good point.
Lady Bug
2018-06-20 17:56:25 +0000 UTCI honestly thought the same thing to be honest and that would an interesting subject to see. Plus it be new too
Lady Bug
2018-06-20 17:55:51 +0000 UTCHave you seen Barbarians Rising? Its on Hulu and they feature Spartacus's revolt in the series with great detail.
Lady Bug
2018-06-20 17:53:20 +0000 UTCNow that's a video series I would watch
Lady Bug
2018-06-20 17:51:35 +0000 UTCThere are so many great topics that fit this theme, I think we're gonna need to learn to use rhetoric for our suggestions to beat the competition.
Lady Bug
2018-06-20 17:50:41 +0000 UTCI did as well, but I'm hoping that my added comments in the form was good enough to go back as far as Czar Alexander II, Nicholas's grandfather, who is the Liberator for Russia's surf population. That way we get the whole picture for everyone involved.
Lady Bug
2018-06-20 17:47:56 +0000 UTCSAM HOUSTON
Christopher Smith
2018-06-20 08:29:26 +0000 UTCwhiskey revolt'
arthur D. gonzalez-martin
2018-06-20 04:15:34 +0000 UTCThe Great Irmandiño War: One of the biggest peasant revolts in Medieval Europe history, getting to count with even 80.000 troops, and conquering huge military victories. And even if not succesful in the end, would mark the cultural history of the third's biggest regional nation in Spain, by helping the complete uprooting of it's noble class, and spawning legendary figures like Pardo de Cela.
JohnnyElRojo
2018-06-19 23:21:57 +0000 UTCthe image reminds me of fallout
Andreas
2018-06-19 23:02:24 +0000 UTCWhoops, didn't read the specific theme. Forget I said anything 😅
LeoZiggy
2018-06-19 22:20:06 +0000 UTCThe slave rebellion lead by Spartacus!
Eric Guinn
2018-06-19 22:15:20 +0000 UTCI submitted the Russian Revolution, because come now, what series on revolution would be complete without it? It's easy to focus on Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and the other Reds, but I'm just as interested in the February Revolution, as well as the mistakes and conditions that made the revolutions inevitable. Russia had been in decline for a long time by the time the revolution finally happened.
General Luigi
2018-06-19 22:02:44 +0000 UTCThe Luther revolution.
Hans Ringstad
2018-06-19 21:49:59 +0000 UTCI suggested the Baroque style, an artistic movement or one could say an artistic revolution. It followed the Renaissance style and was a way to counter certain elements of the Renaissance and was supported by the Roman Catholic Church as a way to return to tradition and simplicity. I wish to know how it impacted history and whether proved as successful as the Catholic Church wanted it to be. People view the term "revolution" as though a political and sometimes scientific lens, but barely in terms of art, despite the fact that art has had a huge impact on history.
Xenin
2018-06-19 20:10:36 +0000 UTCI've always been super intrigued by John Quincy Adams's unprecedented post-presidential career as a Congressman. Considering what he went through personally as well as politically while President, his drive to serve his country and completely turn around his tarnished reputation as a Congressman is super admirable. Especially considering his significance as one of the leading figures of abolitionism during his congressional tenure.
LeoZiggy
2018-06-19 20:00:45 +0000 UTCTrung Sisters' Revolution. I know it doesn't appear historically important, but it is culturally important. Vietnam's relationship with tribalism, Chinese influence, imperialism, and feminism were all significantly affected by this revolt. We need more Vietnamese history that isn't involving helicopters flying to the sound of "Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival".
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-06-19 19:36:38 +0000 UTCKarl Marx. Probably the single most important philosopher of the 19th and 20th century, yet many people don't know much about his life or how it influenced his worldview.
themunck
2018-06-19 19:32:14 +0000 UTCThe Catholic and Royal Army: First, the "revolutionaries" outlawed the church, then they killed King Louis. Now, they were trying to conscript their sons to fight to defend these outrages. The people of the Vendee were through letting Paris control their lives.
Julia Augusta
2018-06-19 19:22:56 +0000 UTC1848: The year Europe went utterly bonkers! 50 revolutions and uprisings took place all over the continent!
Rossum
2018-06-19 19:10:54 +0000 UTC
