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May I submit the whole of history as an area of interest? :P

The fun part is that history leaves in a lot more of the context as part of the study and leaves the proof/disproof of the thesis to the reader, and so you can use it to study people's decision-making under pressure across time. While this is most obvious with military history, case studies can be made from almost any part of history about how to respond to decisions, and why particular responses are chosen.

Deeply investigating critical decisions is so interesting.

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This, Mr. Argo, is music to my ears. Indeed, I have devoted a substantial blog to this technique:

https://casemethodpme2.blogspot.com/

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I feel like this approach has worked well for me: start with a question you don't know the answer to, like "Why did WWI really begin?" and try to answer it from one point of view. I picked the death of the Ottoman Empire, and briefly that was my area of historical expertise. Then I became curious about how the Ottomans had intersected with the British on one side, and with developing middle eastern cultures on the other. From there, I just kept expanding.

I've circled the globe many times like this, and gradually, it all makes sense. It all collects.

But I also really, really appreciate historical overviews, so I can make sure I have things in the right context.

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