What Era Of Recent History Has NOT Been Done To Death? (war, Mexican)

[cpg35223]

The Civil War. World War II. Is there a historic era in the past two centuries that you'd like to know more about?

[Dd714]

The Mexican American war. It's actually a fascinating campaign - combat in Texas, but even better was Winnfield Scott landing of an Army about a 1,000 miles behind enemy lines and marching through enemy territory to Mexico City. Then you had later civil war figures getting there first taste of combat as junior officers (It's somewhat telling, reading Grant's autobiography of his first combat experience and him describing seeing a person's head blown off by a cannon shot - Grant remembered that 40 years later when he was writing for a reason). Then you had the political intrigue and disagreement with the war, much as you have today.
I've only read a few books on the subject. I enjoyed Sharra's historical novel "Gone for Soldiers". I have to get more reading on the subject.

[Thyra]

I'll go for the Franco-Prussian War and the Thirty Years War. Both changed the face of Europe..I know.. that phrase has been totally over used..but these are two wars that really did.

[CelticViking]

dont know about how recent...but all the above answers are good...how about the war of 1812? and even the korean war and vietnam is talked about extensively...

[Nosferatu]

The Landing at Alhucemas Bay (1924).

The first aeronaval landing in the history of mankind.

[Fred314X]

An era in history? How about the first decade of the 20th century in Asia--when was the last time you read anything about that?

[WIHS2006]

Spanish American War of 1898 - it's the most important conflict in US history. The US became a world power in the waters of Manila Bay and the slope of San Juan Hill, it was the dawn of the so called "American Century".

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

An era in history? How about the first decade of the 20th century in Asia--when was the last time you read anything about that?

Yes, I was going to say the decade before WWI, for any part of the world. Even our own Spanish American war is very thinly known, and the decades after that just a blur. It was a brief period when the whole world was cusping into electrification and motorized transport, which must have been a huge transition, that just skipped by. To the people then, it must have been like the computerization of the 1990s. Nobel prizes were being won by people like Curie, Rontgen, Rutherford, Marconi, Erlich, Pavlov.

[BlackShoe]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

An era in history? How about the first decade of the 20th century in Asia--when was the last time you read anything about that?

The Boxer uprising 1900,and the Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905 have been documented and commented on,so we do have some coverage of that decade.

[WIHS2006]

Originally Posted by BlackShoe

The Boxer uprising 1900,and the Russo-Japanese war 1904-1905 have been documented and commented on,so we do have some coverage of that decade.

How many Americans know about either of those conflicts? Probably not many which is insulting considering that almost 3,500 US Army soldiers, US Navy sailors, and US Marines were sent to China in 1900 as part of the Eight Nation Alliance.

The Russo-Japanese War was the first modern war. Japan's victory over Russia is what put it on a path that led to World War II. It was the Russo-Japanese War that led the US military to begin planning for our eventual showdown with Japan that did not come until 1941-45. Teddy Roosevelt knew they were a threat as early as 1905 which is why he began the construction of the Panama Canal and modernized the US Navy into the "Great White Fleet".