I would go:

1) Texas Aggie football
2) Houston Oilers football
3) Houston Astros baseball

JK - If we're talking history that you learn in history books, my vote would be:

1) Mid 1800's European infiltration into Asian culture
2) The clash (and cross-polinization) of Christendom with Islam in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
3) The Cold War

BQ88/alaan

As interesting as the subject is, there were so many political groups/factions, most of the books I have read seem to lose you in a jumble of acronyms. I will check that PBS series out.

Very intensely personal and brutal civil war.

I enjoyed Homage to Catalonia.

* Texas Independence 1836
* American Civil War 1861-65
* WW2 in the Pacific 1941-45 (America)