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It occurred to me that I should probably merge the Great Depression board with the Early 20th Century (American) history board. At the same time, I will change the parameters so that the board covers history up through about 1950, and that the Recent American History board covers history back beginning at 1950. If there are any comments, speak now or forever hold you peace….or hold your piece? 😉
Good idea. Should have been done long ago. I've come to the conclusion that no matter how you structure your forum, people will post topics in the “wrong” forum because they have differing views on where the post belongs. If you do this, you broaden it to avoid the confusion.
The thing that was bothering me was that if someone wanted to make a post about something non-WWII related in America during the 1940s, where would it go? Not quite Great Depression, not quite Recent History….too bad history doesn't fit neatly into the compartments that historians like to place on past ages… 😉
The thing that was bothering me was that if someone wanted to make a post about something non-WWII related in America during the 1940s, where would it go? Not quite Great Depression, not quite Recent History….too bad history doesn't fit neatly into the compartments that historians like to place on past ages… 😉
To be honest, I would have American History broken down into: Colonial and Antebellum America, Civil War/Reconstruction/Gilded Age, Modern American History up to World War II, and Modern American History post World War II. Or some variant anyway.
Something like that can well be done. Sounds like you're proposing the merger of quite a few boards, and I am not against that. Just to make it clear, you would the following American history in the same group/board:- c. 1860-1900- c. 1770-1860- 1900-1945- 1945-presentAre these dates more or less what you are thinking?
Something like that can well be done. Sounds like you're proposing the merger of quite a few boards, and I am not against that. Just to make it clear, you would the following American history in the same group/board:- c. 1860-1900- c. 1770-1860- 1900-1945- 1945-presentAre these dates more or less what you are thinking?
Looks about right to me.
