Historian Reacts - Is Civil War History Being REWRITTEN?!?!?!?!?! | Checkmate, Lincolnites!
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The “gay frog guy” was Alex Jones of Info wars infamy. He went on rant that included the quote “..PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER TO TURN THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY!”
Should've watched the end of the previous episode. Basically explains how Klaus (the N@zi warlock) got the sword, which helps him resurrect the dead.
Recently there's been a rehabilitation of General McClellan among some historians. It's still in vogue to view him as "slow", but people are actually starting to look at what was actually occurring on the battlefields rather than just assuming based on very political attacks on McClellan's character. They're noticing the purposeful delay of supplies to his army by some parts of the Union government, as well as comparing his preservation of the main army protecting Washington compared to Pope's utter destruction of it.
A very important aspect that many people don't realize is that the Eastern Theater wasn't strategically significant when it came to actually bringing an end to the war. The war was going to be won in the Mid-West and Mississippi Theaters, and McClellan knew this. The role of the Army of the Potomac was to pin down as many Confederate troops as possible and prevent meaningful advances into the North. Trying to batter his way into Richmond was only really an option early in the war, and likely would not have ended it anyways. The calls for offensives in the East in the mid part of the war by politicians were extremely ill-advised, as the East did not give much room to maneuver with the Appalachian Mountains forming a large barrier that constrained the front. McClellan purposefully intended for most offensive actions to occur in the West, which is indeed what happened. With more ability to maneuver, and more manpower, the Union was able to vastly outperform the Confederates in these other theaters throughout the war, as Confederate troops were almost totally concentrated in the East protecting Richmond and seeking to take Washington.
Furthermore McClellan was the one most responsible for turning the Army of the Potomac into the fighting force that Grant would use to break the Confederacy in the end. He just should have not been given field command of the army.
Thank you for reacting to this amazing series. Hope you'll react to the final episode. It was very educational for me when I first watched it; encouraged me to follow Eric Foner's MOOC made at Columbia back in 2006-9.
23:25 really sounds familiar to modern day Republicans bitching about dems using the term racist to silence them. It's amazing how much history can repeat
28:54 34:22 I wouldn't be so quick to separate progressivism from religious institutions. True, often in the Western world religious dignitaries favor conservative or reactionary forces, but there have historically been left-wing Christian movements from the early 1800s up to the 1980s and even today. Liberation theology in some Catholic circles of Latin America is an example (look up Helder Camara), but you could point to African-American churches today, worker-priests in France post-WW2, and social Catholicism before that. During the 1848 Revolutions, in France, some priests planted "liberty trees" alongside republicans (revolutionaries) and some devout workers called for democratic and social reforms by saying stuff like "what Jesus called the Kingdom of God, we call the democratic and social Republic", or referring to Jesus as "the worker of Nazareth". Not to mention liberal and progressive Judaism today.
The conservative revolution of the 1970s and 80s eroded at those tendancies, but it is a real component of left-leaning movements.
@MagnustophelesI mean, Christianity was always overall more conservative, but there was a leftist tendency. That’s what I meant.
@MagnustophelesThat is a reading of religion based on the politics of a small group of Christians (in particular as there are many religions). The core ideals of progressivism is still a major force in the black church. And unfortunately most don’t understand that things like the Moral Majority is just a continuation of the core values used in the south that was tied to religion.
The reason these southern Baptist went for Carter was he was a southern governor in Georgia. The fact that he was not more harsh on black peoples and supported their religious views was core to them leaving him and the party for the Republican (thus completing the political realignment of the 60’s) and triggering the rise of Regan (though we still have to recognize the Iran deal as well) as he became president setting in motion events that led us to republican part of today. (IMHO)
11:32 my school did. I was the one who got caught with that page. I got sent to the principals office for telling my English teacher to go fuck themselves
I has been about a decade since high school for me but I was taught the civil war pretty well for a republican corn field town. In generally the only additional was that the north didn’t necessarily care as much about slavery as the south seemed to since neutral states keep slavery a little bit longer but it wasn’t really said that that was likely in part just to not temp then to just join the south.
29:00 or so Religion is not a conservative only thing. And it does not make one more conservative. We often think of the Puritans as being very conservative and heck they did the witch trails. But if you look closer, they came to the new world because they had ideals that were too egalitarian for Europe. The ‘same’ Christianity that the slave masters and the CAS used to oppress black peoples was used by those same people to escape slavery and eventually used as part of the fight for equality and freedom. Many times white destroyed towns and killed blacks with no religious context just belief in white superiority. My point is religion is not one place of the other in liberal or conservative terms.