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BasinBrandon t1_iw3cfr7 wrote

What are y’all’s favorite eras to learn about?

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jezreelite t1_iw45v8y wrote

The High and Late Middle Ages and the 19th and early 20th centuries in general

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elmonoenano t1_iw4aqog wrote

I like the US from about 1850 to 1940. There was just a huge sea change in the understanding of the Constitution, economic institutions, and development in the country. It's a fascinating period to learn about. A lot of the conflicts from that time are still driving politics to this day. Right now we're basically in a reversal of Constitutional understanding back to a Lochner era reading where civil rights aren't important but economic rights of the elites are paramount. This is basically con law from 1939 to 1870 in reverse.

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BasinBrandon t1_iw4dd61 wrote

This is a very under discussed era of the US, 100% agree. I’m still not super familiar with the era, but much if the little that I do know was pretty mind blowing and changed the way I looked at the US fundamentally

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dropbear123 t1_iw6zit4 wrote

World War One specifically but the late 19th Century to the early 20th century more broadly. I'm not German but from 1871 when Germany became one country to either the end of Weimar Germany in 1933 or the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 are good markers of the period I mean.

There is just a lot going on in terms of colonialism, technological growth, ideologies, the international politics before WWI and the consequences of the war. A lot of class based stuff as well. In the UK there was all kinds of reform going on, the Labour party becoming important and other countries catching up with the British Empire economically.

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