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

Fanincowboyland said
While I like all history, my favorite period is American Reconstruction. I see the outcome of the Civil War as basically inevitable based on the resources held by each side. I realize that was not so evident at the time. But, how we would put the country back together was something with no inevitability at all, and is still very much a work in progress 150 years later.

reading a good book about Reconstruction in New Orleans right now. Its pretty fascinating. Most people believed that if it was to work, that New Orleans was the place to make it happen since there were many here who had been against Secession in the first place. All eyes were on this case and it included those from the North.