/his/-related topics you wish were more popular

>>2134721

I would like more organizational military history.

We get a lot of mil-his here, but it's mostly on the level of

>See how bad X kicked Y's ass
>Why did this country lose that war?
>Isn't this gun/sword/spear/technique really cool?

At best it's tactical level stuff, when it's not just pure wanking. I would love to see more focus on militaries as organizations and how they communicate, come up with solutions to problems; why did X military come up with solution A to a particular problem, while Y went with solution B.

>>2134727
Yeah I sure never get tired of the same "ridiculous battles" thread about Brits or Germans massacring negroes with spears or an army attacking itself with the same pics of wikipedia infoboxes.

I'd love to see one on the Franklin Expedition.

I want to hear more about explorers who went through africa, like the Congo or following the Nile.

>>2134721
>>2134727
>>2134737
>>2136631
>>2136637
>nanny state fags
Instead of whining about something as trivial as a nonexistent thread on an imageboard why dont you create one of those threads yourselves?

>>2137407
Because they would not survive?

Theology, sociology, linguistics and psychology

Also >>2137407 is not wrong you know

>>2137411
Pick a topic, do some research on it and then make a thread with 3-5 posts to get people interested. The visitors of /his/ can't claim tl;dr and everyone here is open to little pieces of history they haven't encountered.
The board is pretty slow anyway so you have a good chance of an original and well-crafted thread surviving among the "was it autism" or "who was greatest blabla in history?" .

In the end, you become better at writing, you do some research on a topic and you learn how to pique people's interest by trial and error

Merry christmas cunt

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>>2134721
>For example history of polar exploration.

We had a nice thread about the Polaris Expedition and the mystery surrounding Hall's death back when /his/ first started.

>>2136631
There are two good documentaries (one made after they found Erebus a couple years ago) and there's a tv series in the works.
I'm still waiting for something similar about Scott.

>>2137575

>Hall received a grant of $50,000 from the U.S. Congress to command an expedition to the North Pole in the ship Polaris. The party of 25 also included Dr. Emil Bessels, a German physician and naturalist, as chief of the scientific staff. The expedition was troubled from the start as the party split into rival factions. Hall's authority over the expedition was resented by a large portion of the party, and discipline broke down.

>Polaris sailed into Thank God Harbor on September 10, 1871 and settled in for the winter on the shore of northern Greenland. That fall, upon returning to the ship from a sledging expedition with an Inuit guide, Hall suddenly fell ill after drinking a cup of coffee. He collapsed in what was described as a fit. For the next week he suffered from vomiting and delirium, then seemed to improve for a few days. At that time, he accused several of the ship's company, including Dr. Bessels, of having poisoned him. Shortly after, Hall began suffering the same symptoms, and finally died on November 8. Hall was taken ashore and given a formal burial.

>Command of the expedition devolved and Polaris turned south. On October 12, the ship was beset by ice in Smith Sound and was on the verge of being crushed. Nineteen of the crew and Eskimo guides abandoned ship for the surrounding ice and fourteen crew remained on the ship. Polaris was run aground near Etah and crushed on October 24. After wintering ashore, the crew sailed south in two boats and were rescued by a whaler, returning home via Scotland.

>The following year, the remainder of the party attempted to extricate Polaris from the pack and head south. A group became separated as the pack broke up violently and threatened to crush the ship in the fall of 1872. The group of 19 drifted on an ice floe for the next six months over 1,500 miles (2,414 km) before being rescued off the coast of Newfoundland by the sealer Tigress on April 30, 1873.

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>>2137594

Arctic exploration, German/American rivalry, mutinous crew, murder-mystery, epic survival story, government cover-up. Here's a book if you're interested.

https://mega.nz/#!sJYyRARB!NBrdGwbfcHloIaNM4sk1MOvu663W9BUNiF4-tV-3mnw