November Topic Suggestion for Extra History
Added 2017-11-20 19:39:38 +0000 UTCLink: https://goo.gl/forms/KIIy6Iufb0vtxlG62
Due Date: Wednesday, November 22 by 11:59pm
Rules: Suggest only one topic that occurs before 1920CE
Use the link above to let us know what you'd like to see us talk about on Extra History! The end of the Otto von Bismarck series is coming up, which means a new vote is just around the corner. Put your suggestion in now and if it wins the raffle we'll put it into the vote to be decided on by patrons in the near future!
And if you like, feel free to share your suggestion with other patrons down in the comments below. :)
Comments
Thank you. :)
themunck
2017-11-23 20:55:41 +0000 UTCI've taken care of that and it won't happen anymore. My apologies for the trouble! -Soraya
Extra History
2017-11-23 20:46:41 +0000 UTCOkay, does Patreon have a way to block specific users? There's this one user who's spammed their suggestion as a reply to almost every single suggestion here for the past two months, and it's really annoying when you actually try to read through the suggestions.
themunck
2017-11-23 17:27:54 +0000 UTCOh I'd love those topics certainly! Zheng He is one that's on my personal list kinda. Sargon has been my topic of choice for awhile since I feel like the story of the first real empire and the first real army is an interesting one, and one which is surprisingly not well-known. Though Ancient History overall seems to get overlooked by a lot of people. Grace O'Malley is an interesting story of a powerful woman in history and I think those are the kinds of topics that certainly deserve some attention. Plus it's also about pirates. Who doesn't like pirates? lol
Christopher Smith
2017-11-23 01:19:45 +0000 UTCThe Cagayan Battles are part of Far Eastern history.
JohnnyElRojo
2017-11-23 00:22:43 +0000 UTCEkmal, I'm pretty sure everyone and their grandmother have already figured out that you are a big fan of Zheng He and really want the world to learn more about her (him? not sure whether he was a man or a woman). You've made your point loud and clear; I would greatly appreciate if you would stop slapping that name in every comment box you see.
Pavel Yakushevich
2017-11-22 22:07:50 +0000 UTCTrue, it's been a while since we've had a series in the Far East. I'd love to see any of those suggestions!
Josh Kendall
2017-11-22 20:50:44 +0000 UTCSuggested the Pullman Strike this time around- fingers crossed
Kathryn Johnson
2017-11-22 10:05:34 +0000 UTCSince i realized that many might not want to watch a 2 hour americaan experience documentary. Here is 2 min bumper for it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyYtVSlFmsQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyYtVSlFmsQ</a>
Primarch359
2017-11-22 06:42:09 +0000 UTCAlso, my thoughts on how the thesis might be developed below (though of course James and the EC crew would be reaching their own conclusions if the topic is chosen): When looking at the record of the United States in terms of upholding the civil rights promised to the freed slaves following the Civil War (i.e. the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and supporting legislation), the telling of this story often ends in 1877, with the end of Military Reconstruction, and lumps the following 77 years together as the Era of Segregation, renewed White Supremacy, and Jim Crow. But this (I think, at least) ignores that the chipping away of the Civil Rights accomplishments and legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction was a gradual and very much contested process, and that furthermore (again, in my humble opinion) the eventual victory of the Redeemers pretty much across the South was a far from predetermined affair, and that the moral imperatives of Emancipation were not destined to decay and necessitate being fought for anew in the mid 20th Century (at least not to the extent they were in Our Timeline’s History). This struggle for the legacy of Emancipation, and of its turning points and contingencies, would be the topic of this proposed series. It is a story with many rays of hope -- of James Garfield’s Campaign for the Presidency in 1880, which put Civil Rights for the Freedmen as a central part of his platform; of Benjamin Harrison, Henry Cabot Lodge, and others, and their efforts to defend the right to vote guaranteed by the 15th Amendment in 1890; of white southern politicians like William Mahone and Daniel L Russell, who looked for some way of building a new society to benefit all their constituents, black and white; of Booker T Washington, born a slave and rising to become one of the most recognized educators, business leaders, authors, and orators in the country; of W.E.B. DuBois, whose scholarship and activism not only challenged the rising tide of white supremacy, but laid some of the key foundations for modern sociology; and of many others. But the story does not end with these efforts being successful in their own time. Because this is also the story of Senator Ben Tillman of South Carolina; of the Supreme Court abdicating its responsibilities in finding the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional or creating the doctrine of “separate but equal”; and of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, and a fair deal of white supremacist violence not so different from it. It is also the story of how stories are told -- it was during this period (mostly in the first 20 years of the 20th Century) that most of the Confederate War Memorials causing controversy today were built and that the Dunning School interpretation of Reconstruction became the “mainstream” understanding of history. And this particular story ends in the 1910’s, with Woodrow Wilson segregating the federal government and with the beginning of the Great Migration — though of course, it does not “end” so much as enter a new chapter, and bring us into modern history, where we struggle with the legacy of this period to this day.
Brian Rose
2017-11-21 21:09:21 +0000 UTCSo after checking with Soraya, I suggested The Rise of Jim Crow, specifically with a focus on the generation following the "Compromise" of 1877 and ending with Woodrow Wilson segregating the federal government and the start of the Great Migration.
Brian Rose
2017-11-21 21:04:03 +0000 UTCHonestly I don't know much about that war so any info is welcome for me
Aidan Forero
2017-11-21 05:35:52 +0000 UTCThe Panama Canal
Ultramagma
2017-11-21 05:10:21 +0000 UTCEthan Allen once again
t.
2017-11-21 04:26:03 +0000 UTCWell, they had help from Britain and France, having convinced them both that Italy owning Ethiopia would be bad
t.
2017-11-21 04:25:19 +0000 UTCif not the mormon wars
arthur D. gonzalez-martin
2017-11-21 04:05:17 +0000 UTCis the Sundance kid and/or the death of the west to close to the 1920 cutoff point if so can i change it to the amaracan weaskey revolt one of the few tax revolts after the Brits were kicked out, Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution by natural selection, or 1838 Mormon War, was the Mormon (cult) piss off enough people after massacring a mess of people for there stuff as well of everything wrong with the Mormon's founder
arthur D. gonzalez-martin
2017-11-21 04:03:46 +0000 UTCpsssst... The guy who suggested Henry George sounds like he knows what he is talking about. Maybe you should take his suggesting ;)
Mortimer
2017-11-21 03:22:20 +0000 UTCThe war of the roses
Russell Deans
2017-11-21 02:52:50 +0000 UTCBarbary Wars. African history, American history, islamic terrorism before 9/11.
Pavel Yakushevich
2017-11-21 02:05:21 +0000 UTCFirst time suggesting Kit Carson. A man who found a fictional tale of him slaying indians and saving a white woman. Near the still warm body of a woman he failed to save from a band of jicarilla apaches. A man who rushed home across the nation to tell his wife he was going to die of an anneurism of the aortoa only to have her die in his arm soon after he came home due to complications of bearing his 8th child. A man who conquered the Navajos, many of whom surrendered on his word of good treatment only to have them marched on the trail of tears. A man who opened the west to the forces of manifest destiny as the guide of Fremont. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLxsSGO2VWE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLxsSGO2VWE</a>
Primarch359
2017-11-21 01:17:31 +0000 UTCTime of Troubles again. Interestingly, I recently read about how the 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina contributed to a famine that ravaged Russia during Tsar Boris's reign, which in turn paved the way for the interregnum commonly referred to as the Time of Troubles. Few things fuel instability quite like a famine. Still, my interest isn't purely in the interregnum, but also in the crises and schemes that led to it.
General Luigi
2017-11-21 01:05:44 +0000 UTCSent again.
JohnnyElRojo
2017-11-20 22:14:35 +0000 UTCThe Great Arab Revolt!
Josh Kendall
2017-11-20 21:46:33 +0000 UTCI'm afraid it didn't come through! Go ahead and send it again, or shoot me an email soraya@extra-credits.net and I'll add it manually.
Extra History
2017-11-20 21:42:39 +0000 UTCI went for the First Italo-Ethiopian War. I'm amazed how Ethiopia was the only African country to fight off Europe and would love to see an extra history series on it
Aidan Forero
2017-11-20 21:26:53 +0000 UTCEih! Could you say if my Cagayan battles suggestion has been sucessfully sent? Because my internet is not very good right now, and I'm a little worried it doesn't had arrived.
JohnnyElRojo
2017-11-20 21:20:53 +0000 UTCWent with my usual suggestion of "Xenophon and the march of the Ten Thousand" :)
Joël Quenneville
2017-11-20 20:57:11 +0000 UTCAnother month, another vote for Margrethe I. We've seen one man try to build a nordic empire. Now let's meet the woman who succeeded. Medival Europe's finest statecrafter and diplomat, Margrete I, founder of the Kalmar Union. Not only is she an interesting person in her own right, she also lets us talk about the pros and cons of Elective Monarchy, the power of the Hansa, a trade guild so powerful she felt she needed an empire to match it, and her adopted son was a LITERAL PIRATE KING! (Seriously, went from king of 3 kingdoms to pirate.) Her father, too, is worth talking about as he inherited a worthless crown of a kingdom that had basically ceased to exist, and turned it into a powerhouse in Northern Europe's political map. And, of course, we can discuss just why she succeeded where Charles XII, and her own successors, would fail.
themunck
2017-11-20 20:02:03 +0000 UTCQin Shi Huangdi
Gabriel Nichols
2017-11-20 19:53:55 +0000 UTCGonna actually mix it up this time, instead of Sargon of Akkad I'll do Grace O'Malley.
Christopher Smith
2017-11-20 19:43:57 +0000 UTC
