Oops! Here's an extra suggestion survey!
Added 2018-04-12 23:36:59 +0000 UTCDue to a miscommunication/scheduling issue back in February, we forgot to give the $8+ patrons a suggestion survey during that month. To make up for this, we will run 2 suggestion surveys this month, starting with one right now!
Fill out this form to add in your suggestion for what we should cover next on Extra History. (The form will be open now until 11:59pm PT on Sunday, April 15. Only one suggestion per person please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed.)
Next week, we will administer the usual voting poll that we run at the end of every series (about every 7 weeks) for $5+ patrons to vote on.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comments
It would be really cool if they did that so fingers crossed we can vote on the scoundrel that was Talleyrand this week!
Johan Svensson
2018-04-16 21:22:54 +0000 UTCI put down the Dreyfus Affair: scandal and injustice that resonates to this day.
Rossum
2018-04-16 20:57:05 +0000 UTCI suggested Hypatia. She was a prominent female historical figure, and the circumstances surrounding her death shine an interesting light on the events that were unfolding in Alexandria at the time.
blueneuron.net
2018-04-16 17:36:06 +0000 UTCThat does actually sound likely. Medieval mythology is a wonderland, so I'd love to see more people learn about it.
Christina Maria Jessen
2018-04-15 19:23:33 +0000 UTCI suggested the Siege of Osaka (1614); already suggested this in the full series vote, but perhaps it'd work better as a mini-series. This event essentially ended the Sengoku Jidai, firmly concentrating power in the hands of the Tokugawa Shogun. It would be a great way to close the old Sengoku Jidai series, and show just how the era of warring states ended, and where Japan went next.
Marconius
2018-04-15 19:17:53 +0000 UTCNeato.
Ethel_Mezezi
2018-04-15 04:34:40 +0000 UTCOk, went with Seven Years War.
Brian Rose
2018-04-15 04:30:45 +0000 UTCI am suggesting Takeda Shingen. Well ever since Extra History mentioned Takeda Shingen in the Sengoku Jidai series, I am fascinated to learn how much of an impact he had in this period and why he is remembered well in Japan, so I would like to hear what Extra History has to say.
Xenin
2018-04-15 03:39:27 +0000 UTCI'll be throwing in my perennial nominee: The Taiping Rebellion!
Joshua Evans-Lowell
2018-04-14 21:46:18 +0000 UTCWould also be a good excuse to bring back Mike Duncan for another collab!
Joshua Evans-Lowell
2018-04-14 21:45:12 +0000 UTCI'm going with Democracy. What better time to hear its history at a time when trust in political institution are at a low.
GooGhoul
2018-04-13 21:11:16 +0000 UTCI've heard that the supposed rule about not drawing the prophet is from one specific sect of Islam, and not a rule of Islam in general. Keep in mind, some Muslims believe that it's a sin to draw any living thing (hence why a lot of Muslim artwork is what it is). But I'm not Muslim and I have never deeply looked into this rule. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_Muhammad" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_Muhammad</a> Since Extra History's art style is pretty simple, you could probably get away with having a blank spot with the letter "M" or a sign that says "Mohammad" instead of a character, if you wanted to be tactful about it.
Erik Eldritch
2018-04-13 20:02:36 +0000 UTCHmm. That's a lot of good topics, but I'd like to cover Washington, The C-P-B Pacific war, Hittites, or the fall of the Tang dynasty. I feel that the life of Mohammad might be... difficult to animate.
Ethel_Mezezi
2018-04-13 19:01:51 +0000 UTCThe Pacific War or the Paraguay War would be my choice from that list
Brian Rose
2018-04-13 17:54:40 +0000 UTCTru'ng Sisters: it's a story about princesses with war elephants: go girl power! <a href="https://badassladiesofhistory.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/the-trung-sisters/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://badassladiesofhistory.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/the-trung-sisters/</a>
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-04-13 16:50:10 +0000 UTCI nominate The Barbary Pirates. Because far too few people know that America's first war after its independence was against PIRATES!
Private
2018-04-13 15:44:01 +0000 UTCJust to see what other people think about them, here's a big list of all the other things I'd like to suggest at some point (in no order) : The American Revolution/George Washington, Chile-Peru-Bolivia Pacific War, Paraguay War, Napoleonic Wars, Life of Buddha, Life of Mohammad, Aesthetic Movement (and possibly its offspring, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, Populuxe), Meiji Restoration, Invasions of the Sea People, Nurhaci, Fall of Tang Dynasty, Black Sam, Migration Era, Unification of Norway & Colonization of Iceland, Vinland Saga, Ironclads, Hittites, History of Paper (which has nothing to do with Papyrus and a lot to do with Marijuana), The Dutch East India Company (a 1600s megacorporation that could claim territory, fight wars and print money).
Erik Eldritch
2018-04-13 14:20:05 +0000 UTCWould there be any point in posting the same thing I did for the April suggestions box? There's a lot of history topics I'd like to see, but I still think it would be most important to cover the Rise of Fascism.
Erik Eldritch
2018-04-13 14:05:21 +0000 UTCMaybe that's something they could tackle as part of the new mythology channel.
Erik Eldritch
2018-04-13 14:02:20 +0000 UTCI nominate the story of the Statue of Liberty. It's a fascinating story of how one of the iconic landmarks in America came to be, as a gift from France. The story of how it came to be is one that I think Extra History should look at and show the idea behind it, the designing of such a statue, the controversy and drama that took over 10 years for it to happen, and the impact it has made since then to America and the rest of the world.
Hugh Mccabe
2018-04-13 13:01:29 +0000 UTCStill eureka rebellion.
Hayden Tuff
2018-04-13 12:51:10 +0000 UTCOne thing that would be amazing, but probably also impossible within the format was the medieval European world view. It's just a really wild ride where Alexander the Great erected the Caucasus to stave off the day of judgement, Sri Lanka was the most sacred place on the planet, there was a giant ring of fire around the equator and dogheaded people always lived just over the next hill. But it'd be hard to turn into some kind of narrative as opposed to a medieval travelogue, so I'm not actually suggesting it. Instead I'll go with Margaret I. Long time backers know the drill by now. Massively talented medieval woman of state, living in a part of medieval Europe that's rather different from the default version most anglophones learn in school. There will be merchant republics (and possibly even a cameo of a peasant republic), elective monarchy, a king turning pirate and the start of the longest sequence of wars fought between the same two countries. There will also be a great European empire that almost was, but ended up only being a dream that fueled that sequence of wars.
Christina Maria Jessen
2018-04-13 12:42:26 +0000 UTCAnyone interested in the Geuzen revolt, AKA the start of the eighty years war between the Netherlands and the Spanish crown?
Stylion
2018-04-13 12:36:36 +0000 UTCI suggested Talleyrand, the foregin minister of france for a majority of the french revolution, the Napoleonic era and the beginning of the bourbon restoration. This man orchestrated both the rise and fall of napoleon. Called by the populus the lame devil and by Napoleon himself a shit in silken stocking and I think that is reason enough to get a series
Johan Svensson
2018-04-13 07:50:22 +0000 UTCI'd love a series on the post-presidency of John Quincy Adams. After having the presidency so brutally taken away from him, on top of losing two of his sons during said presidency, there's something really admirable about his continuing to stand up for what he believed in and serving in the House of Representatives for 17 years until his death. I think a lot of people have forgotten that crucial chapter in his life, as well as his being one of the leading abolitionists of his day before Lincoln.
LeoZiggy
2018-04-13 02:31:06 +0000 UTC:D I did not know this, awesome!
saltking
2018-04-13 01:51:56 +0000 UTCYou know they're covering the Empire of Mali next, right?
Brian Rose
2018-04-13 01:41:32 +0000 UTCThat's neat, Brian. I could get behind that. It'd be nice to see an extended juxtaposition between Maria Theresa and Frederick, as well. With that settled, I'm a bit stuck between that suggestion and the Chu-Han Contention.
Ethel_Mezezi
2018-04-13 01:05:08 +0000 UTCI've nominated Matthias Corvinus, the last great king of Hungary. You may remember him from one of the early episodes about Suleiman the Magnificent, where he and his father Janos Hunyadi were both referred to as Great Heroes of Hungary who had stymied Turkish conquest. He was a true Renaissance prince and deserves to be remembered. :D
Ethel_Mezezi
2018-04-13 00:59:35 +0000 UTCI've nominated Timur the Lame, but I would also like to see series dedicated to the events of the 30 Years War, the American Civil War, the Rise of the Qin Dynasty, the West African Empires like Mali, and the first empires of the Fertile Crescent like the Babylonians, Hittites, or Assyrians.
saltking
2018-04-13 00:52:35 +0000 UTCEthan, the one thing I'd strongly suggest to EC is that the first video basically cover the War of Austrian Succession (arguably, it and the 7YW were really just a single massive conflict with a six year break). Also, I added Poland to the list.
Brian Rose
2018-04-13 00:49:26 +0000 UTCThose all sound pretty neat, though I'm partial to the first three. But it depends, for the 7 Years War are you planning on covering Mah Boi Frederick and the European War? Or are you doing what basically everyone I have seen does and forget Europe for the Americas?
Ethel_Mezezi
2018-04-13 00:37:08 +0000 UTCProbably something that I should have asked sooner, but it's my first time suggesting a topic and I was wondering how long the little "Extra Bits" at the end of our suggestion should be. I ended mine with a good bit of reasoning to make my suggestion more persuasive, but it was maybe a bit long? Sorry for my "Noobiness", I just became a Patron this month. ;_;
Ethel_Mezezi
2018-04-13 00:34:31 +0000 UTCAs I nominated it last time, I took the Investiture Controversy off the list - though I can absolutely nominate it again if anyone at EC would be interested in tackling the subject.
Brian Rose
2018-04-13 00:11:34 +0000 UTCSo I’m going to nominate one of the following, and would love to hear if anyone else would like them as well, and especially if they want to nominate them as well. The list as it stands now - the Chu-Han Contention, pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, the Seven Years War, the Haitian Revolution, the Fall of Poland (1789 to ?) or something on late 19th Century American politics (the Gilded Age in general, the rise of Jim Crow, etc).
Brian Rose
2018-04-13 00:09:50 +0000 UTC
