Would my own website devoted to a favorite article topic drive more traffic to those articles?

I would say the same rules go for traffic generation everywhere on the web. It will all depend on your marketing of the site and also your SEO. You will need the right keywords to target your market.

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.