Suggest an Extra History Topic!
🕑 Added 2017-12-21 07:30:29 +0000 UTC Click the link and use this form: https://goo.gl/forms/NYyWmq5k5RYWu4Rc2What topic would you like to see us cover on Extra History? Send in your suggestions and we'll add them to the raffle bowl! One lucky suggestion will get grabbed out of the bowl at the end of the Khosrau Anushirawan series (likely in early February) and join the list of topics that patrons get to vote on! If your topic wins the vote as well as the raffle, not only will it become a series, but we'll put your name in the credits!
RULES: Suggestions must be from a period of history preceding 1920 CE. Only suggestions made via the form linked above will be counted!
DEADLINE: Please send your suggestion by Saturday, December 23 at 11:59pm PST!
If you have any trouble or want to ask us a question, feel free to comment, DM, or mail soraya@extra-credits.net
Comments
Sean Sarff
I was on vacation when this popped so I missed it as well. Next time ECH!
Knightly
Come on! I've been a donor for 3 months and still every time I miss it!
themunck
No, there's a bit of a backlog. I think there's 3 series between now and this one?
Augusto Bonzini
Hello! New to all this, this started on 21, but the current series is about Khosrau (and christmas in WWI I think), this is the one for the next series after them, right?
Marcus Skerratt
The founding of Canada or JTF2.
Yuval Bar-On
Suggested Bartolomé de Las Casas, "Protector of the Indians". More people need to know his story
Richard Fejdasz
Submitted the Hanseatic League, we need a lesson on Medieval Economics, and one that ties into video games to boot.
Brian Rose
Suggested the Gilded Age of American politics (1876 to 96); who else wants to listen to Dan narrate the crazy events of the 1880 Republican National Convention?
Jason Fox
Submitted a topic for Chhatrapati Shivaji, since we've yet to have any series on India.
Extra History
Popping in to confirm that yes, topics do need to be re-suggested each time and they do not carry over from one raffle to the next. We've been doing this for a couple of years now so if we kept them all, the odds of any new suggestion winning would be... very not good!
t.
They need to be suggested again. If they went back in they'd have picked mine by now since I do the same one every time.
Andreas
Vikings!
Jessica Cheeri
Do the suggestions that don't make it to the voting list go back into the hat or do they need to be suggested each time?
Johan Svensson
I suggested talleyrand, a politician whose exploits during the french revolution would have put Walpole to shame
Christopher Smith
Sargon of Akkad and the Sargonic Dynasty again. It's the first empire and the first army, fascinating stuff that changed the course of human history.
Jonathan Luoto
I'm suggesting Arwa al-Sulayhi again. The little Queen of Sheba. One of the very few ruling Muslim queens.
Primarch359
Suggesting Kit Carson again. Victim of Fan Fiction. In perhaps one of the most surreal moments of history i have come across. Near the still warm body of a woman he had failed to save was a fictional acount of him saving a woman abuducted by indians. <a href="https://youtu.be/XLxsSGO2VWE?t=37m32s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/XLxsSGO2VWE?t=37m32s</a>
JohnnyElRojo
The Cagayan Battles and Juan Pablo de Carrión. Already suggested. It's not always that a 69 years old guy with fourty soldiers, is capable of beating an army of a thousand pirates.
themunck
I think I'll suggest someone new. Just kidding. Margrete I. Not only an interesting historical character in her own right, as the woman who united 3 rival kingdoms and probably medieval Europe's greatest diplomat and statesmen, she opens up a lot of interesting topics. The benefits and problems that comes with elective monarchy over heredity monarchy. The Hansiatic trade league and how she felt she needed to form an empire to oppose a bunch of merchants. The rise of her father, Valdemar Atterdag, who inherited a pawned off crown and died ruling a united kingdom. How her adopted son Eric gave up kingship and became a pirate. And perhaps most interestingly, why she succeeded where Charles XII of Sweden failed, and why her realm would still splinter again in the end.
Steve Jackson
Come on folks, vote Nader Shah. We need to organize!