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It would be awesome to have a list of the artwork, source, artist, etc.!

I'm learning a lot from your lectures, and really appreciate that this entire course is on line. But a couple of details on this one. First, on the Census Bureau "having some time on their hands" so they did a survey between the 10-year censuses of population - I certainly hope that you (Troy Smith) know that the Census is responsible for hundreds of different surveys of all aspects of US life, economy, culture, housing, education, consumption, and so on, and not just the Census of Population. But your listeners may not know that. These surveys are an essential source of data about the US population. Making light of them "having time on their hands" is misleading and inappropriate. What's more, the Census Bureau, like all scientific activity supported by the US government, is woefully underfunded and unable to do much of the work that would help all of us understand our country better. "Time on their hands" is not something they have. Second, regarding what indigenous people would like to be called, and the results of that survey - I hope you know (but again, your listeners might not) that a majority must be over 50%. Exactly 50% would be a plurality, but not a majority.

I’ve been to aberdeen a million times and never knew this. South Dakota would be devoid of meaning if it wasn’t for the Indian lore

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Never thought this subject would interest me so much, but you made it so. Thanks again. Scary to think those twits in the comic and gamer gate "crusade" are now adults of voting age. I can only wish they learned some valuable lessons along the way. Or, they just became Star Wars fans haunting the online comment areas. To them: "I'm visiting your mom today, and dropping off the plans and quote for adding windows to her basement."

Great series, thanks for it. Regarding the books as investments, well at least it isn't the supposed "Gold" being pushed in online advertising (which is actually paper with words on it explaining why it could easily lose all value). At least comic books can't go "negative" like some stock market derivatives and commodity futures can. Imagine the dude from the comics shop calling and telling you that you now owe him another 10 bucks ;)

Oddly enough I find myself agreeing with the censors about "walking dead" ghouls, although I suspect for different reasons. Walking dead, who mostly look like regular people, are butchered by the hundreds gleefully... and this works toward the "normalization" of mass murder without remorse. All that is needed, is to de-humanize a section of society (such as "Progressives"), then convince your followers they are beyond the pail enemies like the walking dead. I really hope that isn't prophetic.... because the de-humanizing rhetoric is becoming widespread these days.

In the 1980's I had a couple of "I Love You's" cancelled as well ;) In the mid 60's I was crazy for the war comics, war movies, etc. My great uncle had seen a lot of horrific combat in the Pacific in WW2, and never would talk about it. But when he decided I was old enough, and as my draft age approached, he finally told me about his experiences at Saipan and other invaded islands (he was a crewman on an LCVP Higgins Boat). He wanted me to realize I was being fooled by propaganda; that there is no glory in war only terror, death, and horror. It worked. Luckily the draft ended soon after, as did the Vietnam War and I was off the hook.

Fascinating story. Well I am a cynical person, and I remember the revelations of the Senator Church Committee, regarding the CIA's many manipulations of the media. Another possibility is, maybe the military was able to leverage the comics industry through access and distribution somehow, to get the desired messages included. Anyway, thanks to this great video I finally figured out the comic I often read as a kid was "Sgt. Rock".

That's a great story about Marvel's epic distribution fail. Regarding newstands, in small town Ohio they were indoor storefronts where the owner was also the town bookie, and was where the Racing Form was sold. I remember walking uptown with my grandfather and me getting a DC comic book, usually a "Sgt. Storm" or another war comic while he picked the Daily Double. I liked two other ones I can't remember the names of; one about PT Boats and the other about a light tank... that for some unstated reason was haunted by the ghost of J.E.B. Stuart ;)

Fascinating stories on censors and racism. That stuff hung on until the late 1960's, famously illustrated by local TV stations in the south refusing to air the Star Trek episode that briefly depicted Kirk and Ohura kissing. Also, the origin of Mad Magazine which I was unaware of was great... F-U indeed ;)

Lol a senate committee on the "gayness" of Batman and Robin is hilarious. Today's House committees are jealous: They have been working very hard to be the most absurd ever seen. This series is very interesting and entertaining, thanks for it.

Dude you are the literal man. Your video series are so in depth, the high volume, and the average length of the videos is just damn impressive! I hope you get more subs because your content blows a million subbed channels out of the water.

Another excellent analysis.. and how weird is it that today people in places like Texas and Florida are working to insure this important information is not taught. Can't refute it? BAN IT.

Greetings from Slovakia! Love your videos about comics, its industry and also some moral lessons that come from them. Here we dont really have much sources about comics to study from... maybe in some schools in Czechia, but its harder to be accepted right from engineering high school😅 and so the main comics source for me is the internet and some autobiography books and so is this channel right now. Again big thanks and Iam looking forward to add the Shaolin Brew to my collection in near future.

Another great dive into the TV Land of our youth. Your humorous asides were quite funny. I remember my grandfather watching Bonanza and Gunsmoke religiously; but I admit after a few years I preferred another kind of smoke. I was surprised, not to hear about Arthur Digby Sellers, who wrote 156 episodes of "Branded"... He's the guy in the iron lung who was the father of the juvenile delinquent kid in "The Big Lebowski" ;)

What Ronald Reagan is best known for: "Bedtime for Bonzo", where he played second banana to a chimp. As a young man trying to make it on my own and go to college at night in the Rust Belt of Cleveland, the Reagan Recession was a crushing setback. Nearly half my friends gave up and moved to Houston. Steel mills closed because of small shortfalls in profit, depressing the entire economy even worse... When a few inexpensive moves would have saved thousands of jobs throughout the entire community. When they say they "don't pick winners", its a lie.

Dr. Smith's fine work makes me regret my life choices... If I pursued my love of History, and not listened to the naysayers who said to choose a career with a lot of job opportunities (in my case electronic engineering), I probably would have had a happier and more fulfilling 40 years. So don't let them talk you out of a History major ;)

Thanks again for this excellent series. I had not heard that letter by J.Q. Adams before, and it was really on point. Young folks should note though, that if you confront your friend with such an examination of the fallacies of their world view... you will almost invariably make an enemy for life. A physical blow is nothing compared to it; the truer the revelation, the more you will be hated for it.

Discovered this last night. Well met. This video is the answer to what I was looking for; an indepth history of Western Fiction. LibraryLadder quality. And now the mountain 62.

Any admirers of Napoleon should look into his handling of the Haitian situation... where he first wanted all blacks killed, then modified the order to be all of them over the age of puberty. French generals there at the time largely ignored the edicts,however in rare defiance of him. His treatment of Spanish civilians in the Peninsular Campaign was also horrid, and his general method of living off the countryside everywhere his men marched caused hundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation of the peasants all over Europe. I want to set up a small table in a city park with a sign saying: "Napoleon was a git, change my mind" ;)

Thanks for this really comprehensive dive. Regarding the musical "Oklahoma!", I would strongly recommend the 1999 Hugh Jackman filmed London stage performance, really quite good and much better than the 1950's movie IMO . It has that wonderful sung line: "I ain't sayin' I'm better than anybody else, but I'll be damned if I ain't just as good!"

On naval history comment areas, I always love mentioning The Battle of the Chesapeake... Just because the Brits hate hearing about it so much ;) That French victory at sea is the real reason Cornwallis was doomed. In one important way, that rare failure of the vaunted Royal Navy gave us our country. More momentous than Trafalgar or The Nile, Admiral DeGrasse's win changed history like few naval battles have before or since. And it is mainly forgotten... perhaps because it doesn't fit the twin narratives of the RN's invincibility at sea, and Washington's greatest victory.

Thank you for this great series. Regarding the Caribbean islands, how much of a factor was yellow fever in the insanely high death rates of the African slaves? We know the whites suffered very high attrition from it, there are accounts of the British sending Army regiments to their islands, and within a year 80% or more of them would be dead of the "yellow jack". I wonder if West Africans had a higher immunity to it because of the "fever swamps" on the western coast which apparently had the same mosquito parasite.

Rough riders was my favorite movie as a kid I used to go the rental store every Friday with my mom and I always went and got rough riders

The first "real" books I read as a child, were The Hornblower novels, so it's probably no surprise my all-time favorites are the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. And I fully understand the guy who said he only wanted to read his favorite authors, I never read the copy-cat naval series set in the Napoleonic era... even when they are apparently quite good from trusted reviews. Weird sense of loyalty? Dunno. Westerns were always very appealing to me, and it wasn't until I was much older that I realized why. It is because of the personal code of honor that the characters have and promote. As CSN famously sang: "You, who are on the road, must have a code, that you can live by..." I happen to feel that the gradual diminishing of the Western in popular culture coincides with lessening the concept of personal honor in our culture. Thanks again for this fascinating lecture series.

Of course, as soon as you upload something like this you realize all the things you left out... in this case (so far): Willa Cather (!!), Conrad Richter, and Thomas Savage.

Wow, these last two lectures were superb. Not only thought-inducing, but packed with new information (for me, anyway). For instance, I have heard about the Vera Cruz incident many times but no one ever bothered to explain WHY it happened. Or the Villa raid into the US, which always seemed pointless until the complex Mexican political situation was explained. As you did quite well. Thanks again for this work, I feel like I cheated your college out of thousands in tuition fees ;)

The Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite Western, and one of the best ever made IMO . For many reasons, but mainly because the Chief Dan George character is brilliant; complex and "three dimensional" especially for !975 . Thanks again for your work and this channel.

Another great video. I grew up in North East Ohio, and we had always been taught that the Erie had been wiped out by the Iroquois, at a battle in Willoughby OH (10 miles E of Cleveland), at the site of "Lost Nation Airport". Also my grandparents had 7 acres in a nearby town, where we found many obsidian arrow heads and some much larger broken spear points. So, were historians so wrong back then that they didn't notice the name change?

Another great one, thank you for your work. "The Real McCoy"... I had not known that, and in fact I remember some History Channel doc on early railroads that claimed the term cane from some new type of automatic oil dripper for lubricating trains, that was heavily copied by others. Anyway, I will take your explanation over that channel every time ;) Also, I've watched hundreds of Westerns for over 60 years, and read dozens of books... But never heard of Texas Fever. Fascinating.

Glen Ford did the first sideways gun ive seen...

We all learned the "basics" back in school... but those maps over time are pretty shocking and drive it home. Thanks for your great work!

The fact that these vidoes only have 55 views is criminal. At least 15 are just me.

All hail, profesor Troy Smith

No mention of American outlaws come on now

Thanks again for great work. Good God, had no idea Baum was such a despicable human being.

Thanks for this excellent channel. I had no idea so many of Custer's family were there... Talk about winning the Darwin Award! I'm mostly a WW2 guy, but have a question. If he had brought along the Gatling guns... would the Native Americans have still attacked, or maybe done so in a different manner such as an ambush attack while the column was strung out along a trail?

Well i think you are wrong about Custer not being aware of the size of the Indian camp of warriors- They counted 800 fires from the previous moved Indian camp and also for months before the battle newspapers were quoting Sitting Bull " I have 8000 warriors and if the army comes near me we will fight " this was common knowledge in the day --- Custer did get across the River but was immediately driven back - per 7 indians interview within 1 month of battle

Pan-Indianism (as in Leonard Peltier) ... oops, here comes the F.B.I. Pan-Arabism ... oops, here comes NATO.

The Freemasons also took remains of Geronimo right ?

Freaking gold. This whole westward expansion is full of terror and shock to me. So messed up . 🤢

18:54 That's kind of a myth. It's not that the design of the 1877 was inherently fragile. That reputation didn't come until later, after the guns were rather old, and most of them were in bad repair. Many of them broke at that point. But there was no record of them having this poor reputation at the time when they were new.

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Thanks a million professor

The music made me think my playlist switched! You wildcard 👨‍🏫

I am so happy to hear your new content recently posted and it’s longer!!! Yay! Thank you so much!

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