- Proper depiction of the native tribes
- Has yet to use the term forefathers and talks about them as rich white settlers willing to break the law to take what they want.
- Displays the class dynamics at play before the war began
- Slave owners doing slave owner shit
- Showing that the idea of independence was pretty much a front for them wanting to own the land in North America.
- There was always an underlying cry for emancipation parallel to the message of American democracy.
- Land and business owners using poor immigrants as the first line of defense.
- He does blur the line of source attribution. Newspapers were rarely the “voice of the people”. Almost always they were the voice of a wealthy elite trying to shape opinion of other wealthy elite (ironically church bulletins were much more transparent of people’s opinions as they would be records of the meetings they held).
- LMAOOO they use Paul Giamatti as the voice over for John Adams!
- These rich lawyer dudes really didn’t want to play war with Britain but they saw which way the wind was blowing and decided to get behind the mob.
- A red coat takes a hatchet in the skull!
- They don’t hold back much on George Washington. He’s really America’s first neo-baby.
this sounds like a huge improvement since he did his ACW documentary where he just let a lost causer talk shit with no pushback