Depends on what client you use, however it seems most clients get lots of spam. If you use Gmail they have a pretty good spam filter you could take advantage of. With all that said, the best way to avoid spam would be to avoid giving out your email address.
Create yourself a new email address and only give it out to people you trust, this should limit the amount of spam you get.
I get plenty of spam on my Gmail account, but I almost never see any of it because Gmail has a very good spam filter. There's unfortunately no real way to get spammers to stop sending you mail altogether. The WORST thing you can do is to respond to a spam message asking to be removed from their mailing list.
All that does is lets the spammer know not only that your email account is active, but that you actually open your spam messages. This makes your address much more valuable to them. The only real way to avoid getting spam in the first place is to get a new email account, make certain to only give the address to people who won't release it to spammers, and never post the address on a public website.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.