POLL: Pick the next 2 Extra History mini-series! (Patreon)

What series would you like us to air on Extra History? Cast your vote(s) below and let us know! This series is expected to air in spring 2019. 

When it comes to the Extra History video schedule we are currently looking at early spring 2019, and writer/director Rob Rath is going to be taking some well-deserved paternity leave sometime around that season! Anticipating our need for flexibility and our desire to make even more patron-chosen topics as fully realized Extra History videos, we are looking for you to vote on 2 shorter series (2-3 episodes long each) that will air during this time. 

Friendly reminder: You can vote for as many choices as you want! This style of voting helps us see what people are most interested in without having to make tough decisions between a couple of close favorites. The top TWO winners will be made into series (first and second places!)

The poll will end at 11:59 PM PT on Tuesday, November 27.

Current Schedule:  Viking Expansion --> Dr. Sun Yat-sen --> Irish Potato Famine --> Your Vote!

Feel free to discuss your votes in the comments! We the Extra History team will be staying out of it (except to answer questions, should you have any) because we don't want to influence anyone's opinion.

Robert Smalls: From Chains to Congress

"Good morning sir! I've brought you some of the old United States guns, sir!" That's what Robert Smalls said as he handed the CSS Planter over to the US Navy—he'd stolen the Confederate ship out of Charleston harbor and loaded it with escaped slaves. The move was pure Smalls. Born into slavery in South Carolina, Smalls was smart and resourceful, with a brash streak. He served the US Navy for the remainder of the war, then went into something more dangerous... politics. During Reconstruction, he would serve in both South Carolina's state legislature and the US House of Representatives, championing civil rights legislation and the establishment of free public schools. Until, of course, everything came crashing down.

The Pazzi Conspiracy: Medici Blood 

1478. The young Medici brothers co-rule Florence. First, Giuliano—handsome, popular, an athlete renowned throughout Italy. Next to him, Lorenzo—homely, harsh-voiced, but with a mind equal to any task. But behind the idealistic facade, the rival Pazzi family sees a crumbling empire ready to change hands. Conspiring with the Pope, they hatch a plot to murder the brothers as they kneel at Mass. Yet when the knives come out, not everything goes to plan... and Florence descends into an anarchic swirl of mercenaries and armed mobs that will reshape Italian politics.

The Siege of Vienna: Ending Ottoman Expansion

1689. Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha arrives outside Vienna with 140,000 troops. Inside, the military governor has less than 20,000 men...and two months before help arrives. As the relief force approaches, attackers and defenders will fight a war underground, digging intercepting tunnels to try and detonate—or disarm—explosives beneath Vienna's walls. And when the relief finally comes, the battle will be on an epic scale: the largest cavalry charge in history, an end of Ottoman expansion, and maybe, (just maybe) the invention of the croissant.

Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba: Diplomat, Warrior, Queen

In 1622, Nzinga walked into the peace conference and found that the Portuguese hadn't provided her with a chair. Unfazed, she ordered one of her servants to get down on all fours and sat on his back instead. The shocked Portuguese never regained the initiative, and she walked away with a recognition of her country's independence. And it wouldn't be the last time. Taking over after her brother's suicide, Nzinga would resist Portugal's slave-trading empire in both war and peace for the next forty years—forging alliances, displaying military acumen, and creating a refuge for those escaping the slave trade.

The Treaty of Waitangi: Birth of New Zealand

In 1840, British diplomats and Māori chiefs signed a document that would establish modern New Zealand, but create a fault line that remains today. The treaty transferred sovereignty over the islands to the British crown—at least, that's what the English text said. The Māori text merely granted the right for Britain govern the islands. Ultimately the treaty would lead to the New Zealand Wars, where the Māori used earth fortifications to stall British troops, but it would also provide a legal platform, unique in the British Empire, for indigenous people to push back against colonial abuses.