Should be a must watch for all Americans.

@@Future_Senior_Kitizen I've read a lot of books on the Civil War, but I learned more form watching those videos.

@@chrismcdevitt7814 He is a cranky national treasure. I think I'm on episode 21. I listen to them at night before falling asleep.

@@Future_Senior_Kitizen Great Stuff ! His voice must be great to put you to sleep because he never gets excited.

Yes, it might take me a week to get through one episode. I rewind to where I drifted off. I can also recommend a series put out by a female prof on the revolutionary war. Yale courses. I was not surprised that she was later a consultant for Hamilton.

YES! I thought I was the only one who heard this!!!

Glad I'm not the only who hears it.

I thought I was the only one as well!

I hear a little H.S.T myself.

Yes.

Try reading a book and you will realize how utterly false his thinking is . Hes a dip shit with a degree.

This man just needs a god damn medal for real

Beth Graham cant say. more than likely youre reading too much into it. Whos happy? Seems nobody. Bunch of racist enslaved africans, lost a war that killed 600,000+ , now have audacity to bemoan the fact that most of the country doesnt want to celebrate the racist losers , tolerate their ongoing hate for the people they brought here in the 1st place or suffer the debate over 1st amendment rights. Ingrates.

The South is a distinct culture in America. The north has monuments to Lenin and Sherman, but the South doesn't demand their destruction. They begrudge it. They bristle at the mention of it, but in the end they don't demand its destruction because those Yankees are entitled to their own regional heroes. For some reason, the South is not entitled to its own heroes, its own history, its own culture. A foreign pressure and vandalism from out of state students tare down their monuments, cheered on by the rest of the country and they are simply supposed to bow down and take it. Like the speaker says: "A little humility." I've known many a southerner who has sympathy for the Yankee cause because 4% of the South owned slaves, but every non-southerner I've met uses slavery (like yourself) to say "F those cousin lovers!" While the North freed slaves, they would also go on to enslave immigrants for another fifty years to their factory overlords. People are entitled to their own history, their own memories without some son of a bitch strolling into town and shitting all over their monuments.

@@mustbtrouble Northerners brought the Africans here to be slaves. My God, this country is full of idiots!

@@mustbtrouble 1st amendment is great. The Democrats who ran the Confederacy didn't like free speech any more than Democrats today. Guess some things don't change.

@@zsedcftglkjh If rhe shoe was on the other foot how would you feel? Heroes?

Consult an ENT specialist?

chris dennehy it's the volume...

I hear you (lol) the volume on this on is ok, but there have been some other seminars in which Prof Blight has spoken that the volume levels were very weak... still, he's such a compelling speaker that i'll usually suffer through low volume.

chris dennehy that's the problem! He really does have an ear candy voice and is very knowledgeable. there's even a video with him and another guy and the other guy is super load almost yelling compared to David :(((

😂🤣 THIS!! OMG you're so right!! I love this guy & have been binging his talks, but 95% of them I have to turn my volume to like 50.🤣 & I still miss things.

The scutum was rectangular.

Loved reading this and want to know more about the concept. Can you recommend any books?

He goes on to say that they have renewed meanings. The idea being when people defend these monuments in political discourse they renew that political legacy. That’s doubling down on the installation

why do you twist what this very subtle man says so that it sounds like he's a simpleton? Apparently the subtleties are lost on you. No offence. Most of us these days are not up to much nuance in our thinking.

Y’all were the villains in that war…