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The Extra History Suggestion Survey is OPEN until 8/22
🕑 Added 2023-08-15 16:35:00 +0000 UTCHello, You Amazing Patreon Members!
Our next Extra History theme is Revolutionaries!
This vote, we're looking at people who turn the wheel of revolution. The speakers, the writers, the scientists, politicians, and guerilla leaders. We're looking at people who created something new, whether it was in politics, society, art or science. If they helped upend the world with their actions, we want to tell their stories.
But here's the catch: it has to be a person. This will be a biography topic, telling the story of a human life and how it shaped the reality we know. So while "The American Revolution" or "abstract art" wouldn't make the vote, "Lafayette" or "Pablo Piccaso" would.
Remember we have a 1930 cutoff—so while not all of the story has to take place before 1930, the majority of it should be complete by then.
You can enter YOUR suggestions for the topic HERE in this form.
Some notes about suggestions:
- Suggestions should feature content before the 1930s
- 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).
- Only one suggestion per person, please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed. Extra History Suggestion Survey is OPEN until 8/22.
We can't wait to read all your suggested topics!
Comments
Bee Aggro
Sandino?
Nimrod
What about Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis. That subject and its importance truly deserves more attention
Vivian Griffith
Mary II and William of Orange with The Glorious Revolution comes to mind.
Joshua Evans-Lowell
Anything before the 390 BC sack is probably better suited for Extra Mythology
PhlubbaDubba
I suggested Brutus, not the one who killed Caesar, the one who led the revolution against the Roman Monarchy.
The Rogue Chief
Newcomen, Watt, their steam engines, and the revolutions in technology and society that they spawned
Douglas McLean
I would suggest a topic on Confucius. His revolutionary approach to governance, conduct in society, and relations towards the arts and learning set a precedent that’s still followed thousands of years later by countless people in Asia.
Jacob Briscoe
I suggest parson brownlow, 17th governor of Tennessee and radical Republican in reconstruction south. He was arrested by Confederate authorities in the great Tennessee bridge burning case against the Confederate government as well as raise support among thousands of southern unionists in the state and battle the KKK after the war Helped expand freedmen rights in the state and fought the old south elite of the state. By no means a saint but an idea of what the state could become
Joshua Evans-Lowell
I suggested Nestor Makhno, it's kind of a shame there isn't a "compare and contrast" option because they're basically doing the same thing at the same time.
Joshua Evans-Lowell
Although we can hope that Ukrainian history becomes less... topical by the time this series would air, as I right this there doesn't look to be an end in sight. While the Communist Red and broadly-Conservitive White armies fought it out in the Russian Civil War, Ukrainian Nestor Makhno and his Black Army tried to build an alternate vision of Communism, one which prioritized freedom in contrast to the authoritarianism of the nascent Bolsheviks. In his quest for Ukrainian independance, freedom, and socialism, Makhno would fight the Reds, Whites, and right-wing nationalist Ukrainian antisemites, and the Central Powers.
Joshua Evans-Lowell
Like so many Extra History topics there are almost too many good options! Giuseppe Garibaldi came immediately to mind but I'm also thinking maybe Machiavelli would be a good option since he revolutionized politics. I also kinda want to see a Nestor Makhno series. I think that's my suggestion
Joshua Evans-Lowell
It would make a good continuation in EH's broader Irish History series along with the Potato Famine and the Easter Rising.
Zal
Just suggested Michael Collins. He helped to form the foundations of the Irish Republic during the War of Independence from 1919-1921 with his intelligence network and hit and run squads and helped to negotiate the Anglo Irish Treaty following the war. He then led the Pro-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War after the split of Sinn Féin. It is widely believed that had his early death in Béal na Bláth in 1922 been prevented, Ireland may have become a different country than the one it became under Éamon de Valera.
Extra History
Ooo that would be an interesting one! Make sure to submit it directly to the form here https://forms.gle/sdfb5LYXWEmY96wNA
RedWizzrobe
I’m leaning towards Karl Landsteiner, the man who discovered blood types. Because of him, blood transfusions aren’t nearly as risky as they were during James Blundell’s time.
The Hand Of Ray
What about Emilio Zapata? Master horseman, revolutionary, Hero of the rural poor, revered national icon and symbol of Mexico, general snappy dresser and a man whose legacy affects much of Mexico even to this day.
