let us be calm and wise

I am largely uninterested in history as a field of study? I know, I know, but I feel like the way it was presented to me in high school classes sucked all the fun out of it. But then I married a person who would have gone into history as a field if they hadn't been a better engineer, so I've started to tentatively dip my toe into some historical periods. (Spouse also used to reenact famous historical battles for me with food, which made them both hilarious and easier to understand.) So, a sort of reverse to the question, histories which I know anything about: queer history from the last 125-ish years, fandom history from the last 25 years, Richard Nixon, history of mental health treatment and poverty solutions in the United States, history of some of the other people's in the fertile crescent when the Torah was being written.