Making History Engaging (Patreon)

Hi everyone.  I just wanted to thank you for your patronage (without you we couldn't make the show) and for tossing ideas at us for the "Great Leaders" survey.  It's always been my hope with this show that we could get people who thought they "just didn't like history" excited about our past.  

This is doubly true for students who may give up on learning about how we got here because the way they were taught that history was a litany of proper nouns and dates to memorize.  I know that many of you would love us to delve into more obscure things, and that's what we love too, but I'd like us, maybe once a quarter, to cover something that high school students or non-history majors forced to take a history 101 class would encounter.  Because if even one additional student who would otherwise have given up on history types one of their assignment topics into youtube, stumbles across the show and discovers something to love about history instead it's worth it.

Thank you again.  Thank you for your support and helping us continue to try to make history engaging.

-James Portnow

P.S.  I really mean it with the thank you.  When I'm working on the channel late into the night and I feel like I'm at the end of what I can possibly do I open this page and it reminds me that this really does matter.  It reminds me of how many good, generous people there are out there and how many writers and artists are getting to do what they want to do because of you.  Again, thank you.