your favorite era

[Kathy]

middle 1800's to beginning of 1900's.....Civil war yrs have always been a very big interest to me.... I guess the interest lie's with the people of that time period... very interesting indeed...Kathy :

 

[mochagirl]

The Victorian Era in general...I love the 1860s and 1870s.

 

[schwarzes_schaf]

middle 19th century to the end of the Weimar Republic

 

[Archangel590]

the time of King David and Homer,the blind poet.

 

[hexa2002]

From the point of view 'historical interest': WW2 maybe, on the other hand, I love reading about each and every era, the more the better, of course time usually prevents me from reading as much as I want.

From a personal point of view: right now, I love parts of other decades or centuries but I would always choose the present. We couldn`t communicate like this right now if we wouldn`t live... well.. now (besides other technical or medical advancements). Most of us would have died already without modern medicine (although still far from being perfect of course). Adding hygiene and hard labour few people got older than 30-35 in all centuries before the 20th. I stay here, in this century

 

[Hydra009]

It's hard to choose.

The Enlightenment era.

 

[martuna]

I would have to say that I enjoy the 1940's and 50's. World war 2 has always fascinated me, and the every day life of the people in America at that time seems so interesting.

My next favorite era would be the Renaissance because I love the work of Michelangelo.

 

[Im_A]

that's an interesting question.

World War 2 timeframe i find really interesting.

The Greek and Roman timeperiods i find interesting.

I even find the Russian Communist time period interesting. Even though it is something I need to do a lot of research on, but for some reason it seems really interesting to me.

Learning about the Ancient people and the tribes is a fascinating time. ie the aztecs and all those groups.

The Egyptian Time period is phenonmenal. just knowing with what little they had, or at least in comparison with what we have, and just how brilliant they seemed to be. plus, they must have been smart enough to make structures that have lasted for how long?

so i find a lot of the timeperiods in history, or a country's history very interesting, so it's hard to say one specific.

 

[Skittler]

1800's - Because some great writers came from this period, poets (lord byron, john keats, edgar allan poe) novelist (charles dickens, charlotte bronte, nathaniel hawthorn, mark twain) etc..

Early 1900's - World war one and two, hitler, stalin, eisenhower, truman it all is interesting to me.

 

[OrthodoxServant86]

Seeing as I am a classicist-in-training, my vote goes in for the Classical period. Nothing's better than the feeling you get reading histories, plays and epics written over 2000 years ago, then thinking back to the way they lived and thought back then, and how it was not matched again in most ways until the early modern period (ie, medicine, historic method, science, philosophy, etc.).

In peace,

-Justin

 

[Andy Broadley]

19th and 20th centuries for me. The world changed so much, so quickly. More particularly the first half of the 20th century.