Best/Worst Decade in American History
 

OK, you're history major, and for two months you get to pick a decade and research the [censored] out of it.

1. Which decade would you pick?

2. Which decade would immediately be stricken from the list?

Note: This is all post-~1750, let's say.

Offhand I'll say the worst is the 1880s.

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edit -- The roaring '20s would be good as would the 1900's. I would avoid 1830-1860 and 1930's.

Sorry I read the OP too fast.

Re: Best/Worst Decade in American History
 

That's not the point...

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EDIT: The point is which would interest you, and which wouldn't interest you. Sorry for being vague.

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OK, you're history major, and for two months you get to pick a decade and research the [censored] out of it.

1. Which decade would you pick?

2. Which decade would immediately be stricken from the list?

Note: This is all post-~1750, let's say.

Offhand I'll say the worst is the 1880s.

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1) Dunno

2) 1820s-30s

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Probably 1970's, 1930's, 1860's...?

Bad economy plus disco in the 70's, horrible economy in the 30's and civil war in the 1860's.

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1860s? WTF?

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The 1930s kinda blew ass too, because of the whole Great Depression thing and WWII (which we got into in '39). But I'm splitting hairs.

I like the 1960s for good -- so much social progress, etc.

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Easiest is prolly gonna be 1940s. Hardest is prolly anything in the period between the Revolutionary War and Civil War.