I think if you have a blog on your site then it will work. What I mean is if you have a blog on any of free hosting sites like blogger. Com or wordpress.Com then you are not actually hosting your blog.
Whereas if you have a blog on say yourblogsite.com then it is considered as your site and will be qualified. And if you are a regular blogger setting up your site is extremely simple and well worth it.
I am not sure if it will work or not as owning a website, but you might want to check out Weebly. Com for free website and hosting. I know that I use them and Amazon let me use it as well did some of the other affiliate programs that I belong to.
Not only that it is nice and easy to use!
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.