Suggestion Survey is OPEN to 10/5 (Patreon)

Our theme for September & October is Object History: The History of... Thing!

If you've seen our History of Coffee series, you know that the story of an item or commodity can actually be just as riveting and fascinating as that of a person. Coffee, what a great thing! But what about the other things?

What about commodities like rum, that shaped the Caribbean and naval culture, or chocolate, that went from a ritual substance of the Aztecs to high-end confections in faraway Switzerland? What about gunpowder, sugar, or even electricity—War of the Currents, anyone? Or a series on the history of board games, which were sometimes more about getting into heaven than having fun (you know why they have a spinner? because dice are for gambling!).

Some notes about suggestions:

• If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a full series, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do).
• Only one suggestion per person please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed.