Suggest a US History Topic!
Added 2016-11-07 19:41:07 +0000 UTCUPDATE: The topic has been drawn and the winner was the Articles of Confederacy! The patron who suggested this topic has been notified by email.
Link: https://goo.gl/forms/IXCx5RdqswLgcY1w1
What period of US History (prior to the 1920s) would you like to see us cover on Extra History? Send in your suggestion before midnight on Wednesday, November 9! We'll choose one topic at random and add it to the voting list for this upcoming weekend! If your topic wins, you'll be added to the Sponsors list for that series.
RULES: Suggestions must be from US history. This must also be a period of history preceding 1920 CE.
DEADLINE: Please send your suggestion by Wednesday, November 9 before midnight PST!
PLUS! Feel free to share your topic suggestions in the comments below for those who want to chat about them!
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UPDATE: The topic has been drawn and the winner was the Articles of Confederacy! The patron who suggested this topic has been notified by email.
Extra History
2016-11-12 18:43:13 +0000 UTCNo worries, you've got a good 12 hours to think about it and decide before the survey closes!
Extra History
2016-11-09 19:52:15 +0000 UTCI had suggested the run up to and start of the Revolutionary War. That said, I'm not sure I want to switch now, as this is likely my aggravation at the election talking. They're both interesting topics, though, so as I said, not sure.
Jorlem
2016-11-09 12:30:29 +0000 UTCYou can! Just let me know what your original suggestion was so I can make sure it doesn't get counted twice. (It shouldn't, as I check for that anyway, but it never hurts to have a specific item to check for.)
Extra History
2016-11-09 12:26:42 +0000 UTCCan I change my suggestion to wanting a focus on the history of the electoral college, and odd elections?
Jorlem
2016-11-09 05:43:06 +0000 UTCI submitted Jackson as well! :)
Joël Quenneville
2016-11-08 15:48:28 +0000 UTCI'll allow it. I tend to be a little generous with things that are on the borderline if they event at least has a solid start date before the cut-off. :)
Extra History
2016-11-07 23:02:52 +0000 UTCThe Spanish-American War of 1898. A seminal event in the transformation of the US into a World-class Great Power.
Jose Beltran Escavy
2016-11-07 22:19:23 +0000 UTCWent for a risky one. Prohibition. Ratified in 1919, enforced in 1920, things that caused it in the 1850s onwards but the majority of the time it was enforced was after the 1920 cutoff. Hope you will allow it but if not sorry.
Alex Purchase
2016-11-07 21:14:48 +0000 UTCI nominate The Articles of Confederation and how they led to the Founding Fathers' Great Do-Over. I think today there's a perception that the Constitution is a sacred inviolable thing, when its very existence is proof that the Founding Fathers could make mistakes and wanted to correct them. The Articles of Confederation is also a great way to examine the tensions that lay beneath the united front, and in some ways still exist today.
RMS Oceanic
2016-11-07 20:55:41 +0000 UTCI suggested the federalists vs the anti-federalists
Aaron hutchinson
2016-11-07 20:46:31 +0000 UTCI proposed the life of Andrew Jackson, a fascinating and controversial figure who should make for quite an interesting series. He was a brilliant general but a terrible president, a man of honor with an adopted Native-American son and yet he started a genocide, a man who single-handedly threw the nation into economic chaos with a war on the banks (which ties in nicely with the paper money topic), and his life was filled with intrigue, assassinations, duels, tragedy. Really would be a fun series I think.
Christopher Smith
2016-11-07 20:15:55 +0000 UTCThe "Long Depression" of 1873 is a little-known topic that would be both format-friendly and informative in regard to recent experiences. It was technically the "original" Great Depression: 1) Kicked off by changes in currency standards and a Real Estate bubble in Austro-Hungary 2) Had a major impact on America's rebuilding in the post-civil-war era 3) Second Industrial Revolution involved 4) After the end, congress forces through "Easy Money" laws that sound similar to today's quantitative easing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression</a>
Matt Collins
2016-11-07 20:04:46 +0000 UTCReminder: if you want to share your suggested topic here in the comments and talk with other patrons about the possibilities, you are absolutely welcome to do so!
Extra History
2016-11-07 19:48:35 +0000 UTC
