Favourite area of History

[shadow operative]

For my A-level History course we have to start thinking about our individual assignment basically you make up your own question about any topic and do an essay on it in controlled conditions after an extended period of research of course.

I was just wondering what you guys would choose? Preferably something which hasn't been over done e.g. Vietnam or WW2.

[vazilizaitsev89]

Civil war. revolutionary.

Modern Greek and German History.

20,000 Greeks fought in the Russian Civil War. Against the Bolsheviks of course.

Just a few ideas for you

[thatcoolkid]

Early - mid nineties. Russia - eastern Europe. Shit was straight up exploding w/ organized crime. After the USSR dissolved and Russia opened up it's controlled economy and its borders, shit was like a shark feeding frenzy.

That's what I would do... or actually it's what I did for my paper, heh.

[kurdt318]

Post-colonial Africa

[grayboy]

European Rennaisance.
19th Century British Empire
WW2-HOMEFRONT

[DesertRebel]

I would choose today. 2000 - 2008. Give it 2 years and ill say 2000 - 2010.

[nshanin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War

Don't do wars where the US was involved; that's ghey and you'll have people grading your paper that actually know what happened. Do you think the graders know about the Rhodesian Bush War? They'll just get on Wikipedia and read barely enough to grade your paper while you can essentially read the wiki, a few encyclopedias, and bullshit the rest. It teaches you a lot about historical patterns too.

[Kazz]

Originally Posted by kurdt318

Post-colonial Africa

This.

And if not... revolutions are fun. French, Russian, Cuban?

If it were me, I'd probly choose Russian, because I know ass-loads about Russia from the Decembrists, to the end of the Civil War.

However if it weren't for this bias, the Cuban revolution is interesting as hell. I'd say, Cuba from the 20's to the 60's. This will allow you to cover Mafia run Havana all the way to the Bay of Pigs or even the Cuban missle crisis, and everything that happened in between.

[Mantikore]

Middle Eastern History, 1948- 1972

that is, between the Israeli war of independence and the Yom Kippur conflict

[Bleeding_Fetus]

Eastern Europe - mid-90's.
China - 18th/19th centuries.
Chechnya - recent history.