Favorite Time In History To Study?

My favorite parts of history are widely influenced by my heritage and my genealogy research. I am most highly interested in American history, particularly the period in which the US was still a very young country, from the Revolution through the Gilded Age. I love anything pertaining to New Orleans or the "deep south" in particular because my father's family came to New Orleans from Germany in the mid 1800's and was there for five generations (I am the sixth generation - was born in NOLA, but grew up in North Carolina.) My mother is a Georgia southern belle, and spent her formative years in Georgia and Virginia, which is where my interest in the south comes from, in addition to growing up in NC (there was actually an NC connection before I came along as my NOLA ancestors used to send their children to boarding school there once they reached a certain age). I enjoy reading about the Gilded Age in general because that is the period in which my family came to America. I like to get ideas about what my life and the people in it may have been like for earlier generations of my family, as well as try to imagine what my own life may have been like had I been born into an earlier generation. This period of course includes such events as the American Civil war and the Spanish-American war, as well as the development of cars, the phonograph, and other breakthroughs. I typically like to apply musicology studies to my historical studies, being that my family started out in the music business. Exploring different songs and forms of music and their relevance to history can apply to any era, of course. Besides early and semi-early American history, I also enjoy German studies. I have no particular period of interest so much as special topic of interest and that is the history of music in Germany and how German immigrants helped shape the American music business. I dabble here and there on other parts of the history and culture of Germany, but the music history in regards to the US is my favorite subject right now.

Lots of history is fascinating to me, but I was never good at history in school. School seemed to make it about memorizing dates and such, and I can't remember what I did yesterday so I wasn't too good at that! I love ancient history. I love researching into the Ice Ages; it fascinates me that people weren't always at the top of the food chain, and it's also humbling. I love reading about the birth of civilizations; how language started...when people turned from hunter/gatherers into settlers who farmed the land. I love Ancient Egypt in particular, but reading about all civilizations and how they triumphed and failed is something I think we need to keep on the forefront of our minds, if only so we may pave a better future from the experiences of the past. The Incas, Mayans...Roman and Greek empires...the Mongols...I love it all. The Renaissance is a beautiful time period. In particular, I love learning about ancient warfare. On my bucket list for my life, in fact, I want to build a trebuchet and learn archery. When I was in middle school, I built a fort by hand and drew out plans to build a medieval watchtower/keep. It's all so fascinating! More recent, I like early American history, the social aspects of eighteenth century Britain, the study of sociology and how people have changed up to recent years, the study of governments and how they change and evolve. Civil war history, civil rights, etc. On second thought, perhaps it would have been easier to go through what parts of history I don't care for...?

I enjoy early American history, from the 1600s on up to the 1800s, but any of it interests me. The settling of the west is especially interesting to me. How much courage those people had, both men and women! I could easily have been a pioneer if it wasn't for the dangers involved.

I've always been fascinated by WWII. Particularly life on the Homefront of either America or England, and the Holocaust. I'm especially interested in people who hid Jews during the Holocaust. I read a great book called Conscious and Courage that's all about that. Another time I'm interested in is the Salem Witchcraft Trials.

I have no favorite time in History, but I love History. Depending on what I´m reading or learning in any other way, I get motivated to give my reading a historical context. Sometimes one discovers amazing things, such as that historical events change their importance as time goes by.

When I returned to South Africa after a 27 year absence, the first thing I wanted to know more about was the history and slavery of my own country. I wrote the first book about the Bushmen and a white Afrikaner boy, and a second book called The Slave Book - and so learned about the past. The research in the 1600s and 1700s taught me a lot. And then I wrote a modern collection of short stories in the new South Africa which brought me up to date.

I like old stuff. REALLY old stuff, but at least stuff that not too much is known about. For example, the high point of the Ancient Pueblo culture was about 800-1300. I have little interest in European culture that late, but these people fascinate me.

I enjoyed history and geography and made top grades when I was in school. Today I read everything I can get my hands on about WWII and the Holocaust. It is all just so interesting to me. I have several books of my own and get some from the library. If I find the library books well written and researched, I will then try to find them to buy online, usually used and with free shipping.

I love the so-called Dark Ages in Europe - after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire from Northern Europe and up to the Normans. I find it very interesting and we learn new stuff all the time from archaeology - just last September there was a silver hoard found which has a coin on it with the name of a Viking ruler who had "disappeared" from history.

Most times, but the older, the better :-) I've never been very interested in WW 1 and 2, and although the 1800's were very important when it comes to building nations, national stereotypes (I love national stereotypes *hehe*) etc, I prefer pre-renessaince. Not that many places to visit, but I love castles, archeological digs. I'm planning to try find some not western centred history books to read, for a different perspective on things.

i love to read history of all prophets like prophet Muhammad(PBUH) its because their history is great and unforgettable for the muslims people. Muhammad(PBUH) came from poor family until he grew up and become prophet and the story is long he also go to war to defense our ISLAM.