Dr. Blight's Civil War class on UKposts is Amazing. I recommend anyone who wants to get a real understanding of the American Civil war to watch all his lectures.
@Future_Senior_Kitizen2 роки тому
Should be a must watch for all Americans.
@chrismcdevitt78142 роки тому
@@Future_Senior_Kitizen I've read a lot of books on the Civil War, but I learned more form watching those videos.
@Future_Senior_Kitizen2 роки тому
@@chrismcdevitt7814 He is a cranky national treasure. I think I'm on episode 21. I listen to them at night before falling asleep.
@chrismcdevitt78142 роки тому
@@Future_Senior_Kitizen Great Stuff ! His voice must be great to put you to sleep because he never gets excited.
@Future_Senior_Kitizen2 роки тому
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.
@sionnachmacbradaigh10103 роки тому
David Blight is a genuinely compelling lecturer.
@waynemuehlenbein22812 роки тому
Only discovered Dr. Blight today! A really fine speaker.
@Pandaemoni3 роки тому
He sounds a lot like Harrison Ford. It's like hearing a lecture from Indiana Jones, though Dr. Jones was not a Yale professor.
@matthintz94683 роки тому
YES! I thought I was the only one who heard this!!!
@alexmcbride75633 роки тому
Glad I'm not the only who hears it.
@duanewaihi44533 роки тому
I thought I was the only one as well!
@thebulky12 роки тому
I hear a little H.S.T myself.
@clayerkwiltee23152 роки тому
Yes.
@kenmoskowitz52112 роки тому
This talk is full of wisdom. Bravo, Professor Blight. Can't wait to read your book. Thank you for posting.
@corpsecurities12 роки тому
Just finished the Civil War course on UKposts. Better than any “must see” series that I watched this past year on Netflix.
@terryalford955Рік тому
Try reading a book and you will realize how utterly false his thinking is . Hes a dip shit with a degree.
@lelandl49076 років тому
Fantastic academic. Would give him time... any time.
@paulfonyangogroupltd52014 роки тому
Captivating from the beginning..
@davidblight58254 роки тому
I need to be great like this man
@baldwintheanchorite2 роки тому
Amen, good Dr. you are the good Dr.
@baldwintheanchorite2 роки тому
This man just needs a god damn medal for real
@mikehjt2 місяці тому
The ancient soldier on the Charleston Confederate memorial David Blight showed is Greek. That round shied was a Greek, being specifically the "hoplon" which gave us the word "hoplite" commonly used for ancient Greek spear-armed soldiers.
@kevinloving31413 роки тому
The sound is too low
@MarcosElMalo24 місяці тому
I’m up to the 11th lecture, the secession of the Deep South. The most illuminating thing is how the history of the previous 20 years set the table for the war. I had already learned about most of the elements and had learned vaguely that they were “among the causes”, but exactly how they all related to the mood and the politics was murky to me. Like a good rug, professor Blight really ties the history together.
@kallekonttinen17383 роки тому
Fantastic indeed. Nice to hear American thinking about statues. Here in Finland we have similar issues, not so hot, but issues anyhow. For example early 1980's some Soviet city gave a statue "world peace" to Helsinki. Now it is next to large market square near central Helsinki. Statue is pure sosialitic realism. Should it be there or not? I am leaning to let it be, but debate is interesting.
@brianbuch15 років тому
Thank you Dr. Blight I disagree on one point. " Let's teach 6th graders to have nightmares", is a very good idea. The alternative is that without a cold-eyed look at history, our fellow citizens will choose a dream of the past that informs waking nightmares in the present for the rest of us. Our history curricula are contested, particularly in mass secondary education and at historical sites. They are contested because political decision in the present depend heavily upon a "memory" of the past that has to do mainly with how the future "ought" to be. The Enola Gay controversy at the Smithsonian and now these Confederate monuments are classics of the type.
@jmkeupp5 місяців тому
The conservative Christian right-wing will put pants on that statue.
@beth74675 років тому
"Count them happy, for they endured a great fight." I'm reading "happy" in the old sense of the word, of being "fortunate." Think Shakespeare's Henry V: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." I wonder if the inscription is invoking this sense of the word, and if Dr. Blight has this in mind here as he discusses this statue.
@mustbtrouble5 років тому
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.
@zsedcftglkjh5 років тому
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.
@tomcockburn6534 роки тому
@@mustbtrouble Northerners brought the Africans here to be slaves. My God, this country is full of idiots!
@svenm72644 роки тому
@@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.
@wendellspivey37473 роки тому
@@zsedcftglkjh If rhe shoe was on the other foot how would you feel? Heroes?
@joepuhel24286 років тому
I can't hear any video this guy is in...
@chrisdennehy94256 років тому
Consult an ENT specialist?
@joepuhel24286 років тому
chris dennehy it's the volume...
@chrisdennehy94256 років тому
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.
@joepuhel24286 років тому
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 :(((
@theorosa3 роки тому
😂🤣 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.
@SSNewberry5 років тому
Roman Shields were square.
@pastorofmuppets455218 днів тому
The scutum was rectangular.
@ttacking_you11 місяців тому
That Ft. Sumter statue is audaciously perverse-pfft. _"DEFENDING"_ smh
@calengr14 роки тому
1:40 need for humility
@elim68834 роки тому
Does anyone know the title of the report he's referencing
@leemarlin941510 місяців тому
Southern symbols and the lost Cause. I can understand the effects the literature could have on peoples. I would question how far down would that affect go in society. The well educated elite yes. Teachers academics yes. Historians and their students yes. The general public no. The vast majority of people reading about the Civil War are interested in the military aspects and that’s what they read about. The whys and wherefores of the results not so much. I would also say for the common man what you’re actually fighting for is not a conscious thing it’s the immediate thing at hand. Survival, self-respect, others perception or whatever makes you feel good about what you’re doing. Fighting to keep their slaves. Big conversation i’m not about to get into. But let’s turn the coin over. What was the north fighting for? Considering slavery was still on the table until January 1863 I would say they were fighting to maintain the union. Not so much a slave liberation Army.
@swdierksРік тому
How about this principle for statues and naming buildings: don't use people. Don't glorify individuals. It only creates a cult of personality on the one side, and a target for that person's failings the other. Put up monuments to events and milestones, not the people who made them happen. Save that for the museums and for history.
@courtneyleeds3 роки тому
Today is July 2020, which means George Floyd was recently killed, and a pandemic is occurring... How does this video only have 12,534 views? You would think Yale grads alone...
@Viksu533 роки тому
Opposite of iconoclasm: idolatry.
@Demosophist10 місяців тому
You are confusing imagination with memory, which is a classic tendency in the era of electrical mass communication since both interior senses are constructed out of phantasmé. But the "memory booms" of the age of electrical communication since the Civil War are primarily imagination presented as memory, and nearly all of them are tainted by the "uniformity principle fallacy" that the present is somehow the key to the past. The problem with this is that under its influence nothing in the past makes sense, and more significantly nothing in the present actually does either. While it may have an explanation, the explanation can't make sense.
@tactlacker2 місяці тому
Loved reading this and want to know more about the concept. Can you recommend any books?
@zsedcftglkjh5 років тому
17:50 "every monument means what it meant when it was unveiled" from the same man who defended historians' being revisionists. "Every historian is a revisionist," yet every statue is somehow fixed in its meaning. Why? Bit of a double standard.
@2brainzzzz4 роки тому
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
@jesuisravi4 роки тому
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.
@lrdickРік тому
a Yankee that hates the South and loves to hear himself talk