- 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.
Yeah I remember watching and thinking, hey I thought the suffragettes and temperance folks were just no-fun scolds or religiously motivated! Turns out, no, it was a literal public health crisis. The anecdotes about the men taking all their wages and basically living at the bar (which served them all their meals and got their mail to keep them around) while the wife and kids suffered at home was enlightening in that regard as well.