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The Extra History Suggestion Survey is OPEN until 10/12
🕑 Added 2022-10-06 03:10:25 +0000 UTCHello, You Amazing Patreon Members!
Our next theme is The American Civil War!
In four years of conflict and partisan division, the US Civil War killed 600,000 American soldiers, 130,000 civilians (including the enslaved) and changed the country at every level. The United States that emerged from the conflict in 1865 was culturally, legislatively, and politically different than the one that entered it, changes that would be largely permanent. These changes were individual as well as collective, with participants experiencing spiritual awakenings, political epiphanies, and often literal changes to their bodies due to horrifying new weapons. A topic might follow one particular general or politician—Lincoln or Grant—or dissect a single battle or campaign such as Gettysburg. Another option would be to follow the United States Colored Troops in their battles both for respect and against the enemy, or a specific turning point or theater such as the US Navy's operations or the Confederate attempt to capture California. Related topics such as the Lincoln Assassination or John Brown's seizure of Harper's Ferry would also fall under this banner.
You can enter YOUR suggestions for the topic HERE in this form.
Some notes about suggestions:
- 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 10/12.
We can't wait to read all your suggested topics!
Comments
General Luigi
New Technology, Old Tactics: A Precursor to World War I My understanding is that newer technology used in the war rendered a lot of old tactics obsolete, forcing commanders to adopt new tactics, including a form of trench warfare. A deep dive into this--as well as how it has echoes in the costly tactics used by commanders in World War I could prove interesting.
Foxdoc
I think I'll second this one. Bleeding Kansas is tragically skipped over in even the more robust curriculums about the Civil War
Extra History
Oh, this sounds like a ton of fun to learn about!
Brian Rose
One of my old suggestions -- The Gradual, Tempestuous Rise of Jim Crow (1877 to 1913)
The Rogue Chief
Bleeding Kansas — the forgotten prelude to the war where heated & self-viewed-righteous parties on both sides took to bloodshed in gruesome grudge matches in order to influence the soul of the territory toward their own side (with its influence being felt all the way back in Washington with the Sumner cane beating), and would spill over into the Civil War proper with the partisan campaigns of Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson, that would in turn lead to the original Wild West outlaw-heroes in Jesse James & the Clay-Younger Gang… a period of bushwackers & jayhawkers whose legacy continues to be felt to the present with the inspiration for one of the most famous Westerns ever made (The Outlaw Josey Wales) to one of the most iconic gridiron grudge matches of college sports (Kansas vs Missouri)
