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🕑 Added 2020-06-05 18:44:28 +0000 UTCOur theme for the month of June is Before the War, After the War
This series will be about war. About how it begins, and how it ends. Note, that the emphasis here will not be on the fighting itself, but the events either leading up to the war or immediately following (for example, a US Civil War series would look at the social forces that drove Secessionism or, alternately, the process of Reconstruction). We’ll deal with big questions of war and peace—when does a war end? How does one convince an enemy to stop fighting? At what point is conflict inevitable?
Some notes about suggestions:
- Only one suggestion per person please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed.
- 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).
- Anything that happened or started before 1929 is fair game to suggest. We typically don't cover more recent events, unless we're working with sponsors who can provide more documentation about that historical topic.
Comments
Leyfandir
I would suggest European religious tensions as a prelude to the thirty years war and the Westphalia treaty. This period truly bears fascinating lessons about tolerance and the balance of powers between the State and the people (for example French monarchs were incapable of preventing or controlling the violences). Moreover Westphalia agreements basically created the modern notions of State and religious tolerance. I know it is part of the war and thus out of the subject but it would be interesting to point out the Franco-Swedish alliance against Catholics Habsburgs as the first affirmation in Europe that religious is secondary to politics.
NotOfImport
Not a suggestion, but I was wondering if topics that lost in the past can eventually get a chance to be covered. I noticed that the Medici lost by 2 votes a year ago, and would love to see a series on them.
Joël Quenneville
The suggestion I submitted was the Peace of Westphalia and the modern nation-state. Looks like several others sent in similar suggestions.
Herkles
I suggested the Taiping Rebellion.
Tyler Kolbe
The Boxer Rebellion. It's been touched on before but it definitely deserves a full series of what lead up to it(spoiler: It was Walpole) and the fallout
Teddy C
I went with Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. May 31 – June 1, 1921.
Dennis Marsh
The Barbary wars, USA’s first wars. Since these took place only a few years after independence it would interesting to see how it shaped international opinion of the young nation
BlueFanfictionInc
The thirty years war and the Treaty of Westphalia (I put in my suggestion into the survey already.) How this war was right for how long it was, give or take a month or so, was seen as an extension of the protestant reformation and even the climax of the greater fighting between Catholics and Protestants, led to the end of the Holy Roman Empire being the single biggest threat in europe, was seen as Spain's decline as a world power, and saw the rising of france, the changing of politics from feudalism to more grand scale state interests, led to the rise of both Sweden and Prussia as great powers, and has, in my opinion, the historical back drop to the best Sabaton song ever, 'Briettenfeld!' It is a massive, brutal, and political shattering war that does not get enough research or talk about in history classes, this war basically reshaped the foundations of europe for the next 150 years, till French Revolution and Napolean.
Vazul
The treaty of Trianon just turned 100 years old. It is celebrated with enormous joy in Romania as the long-awaited unification of a nation divided. It is a great source of grief in Hungary, a sorrowful celebration of a nation losing two thirds of its land and heritage, of countless families torn apart. I would love to see a series or one-off that does justice to all sides of the story, of the crumbling of the Habsburg Monarchy.
alexmarie500
The US Civil War
Fenrir
how about the 80 years war, a religious conflict which ended in the dutch republic winning their independence and signaled the start of the organised protestant church
Nimrod
the thirty years war - a war that reshaped europe
Jp Lynch
(Gulp) ... the history of the concept of race. Recommended sources: - Fatal Invention, Dorothy Roberts - In the shadow of race, Victoria Hattam - White Trash, Nancy Isenberg - The Archaeology of Ethnicity, Siân Jones - Becoming Free, Becoming Black, Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J Gross
sam
John Horse, where he have African-Americans, Natives and Mexicans successfully united against so-called freedom lovin Texan slaverw
Texas Gent
How about the War of Spanish Succession, detailing the rivalry between the Hapsburgs and Bourbons and how the conflict forever altered the balance of power in Europe. If possible try to tie in the major rise of piracy in the Caribbean that came as a result
