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Suggest a US History Topic!

🕑 Added 2016-11-07 19:41:07 +0000 UTC

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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.

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No worries, you've got a good 12 hours to think about it and decide before the survey closes!

Jorlem

I 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.

Extra History

You 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.)

Jorlem

Can I change my suggestion to wanting a focus on the history of the electoral college, and odd elections?

Joël Quenneville

I submitted Jackson as well! :)

Extra History

I'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. :)

Jose Beltran Escavy

The Spanish-American War of 1898. A seminal event in the transformation of the US into a World-class Great Power.

Alex Purchase

Went 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.

RMS Oceanic

I 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.

Aaron hutchinson

I suggested the federalists vs the anti-federalists

Christopher Smith

I 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.

Matt Collins

The "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>

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