What is your favorite part of history to read/learn about?

Naval History, and particularly that during the era of the wooden warships. I know way too much about the war against the Barbary Pirates 200 years ago. names like William Bainbridge, Edward Preble, Stephen Decatur, and Thomas Truxtun fascinate me :hihi:

John Paul Jones, Trafalgar, the Battle of the Nile, the Battle of the Saintes, Kearsarge vs the Alabama, Jutland, Leyte Gulf (Evan Thomas' Sea of Thunder is excellent) are further interests.

I used to read a lot of Sci-fi and have gotten back to the genre somewhat here of late.