If you have an adsense account yes - otherwise apply and give the forum url people have used Blogger as their first web url for adsense.
The better route would be to purchase a domain and make your own website because from what I've seen it's not possible to do what you're trying to do because Google knows that a free forum as opposed to a paid for domain would basically be making the creator free money off of their Adsense software.
I've received OK results from AdSense for Content and AdSense for Feeds through my Blogger site. If you market things right you can succeed even with a free platform; although forums are a hard nut to crack. It's hard building up a sustainable community that will produce good content and draw in visitors.
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.