What was his endgame? And why was the Civil War the comfiest doc of all time?

What was his endgame? And why was the Civil War the comfiest doc of all time?

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>What was his endgame?
He’s Jewish, so probably Greater Israel the destruction of the West
>And why was the Civil War the comfiest doc of all time?
It was made at the right time to be peak comfy

>its a Sup Forums felates a cuckfederate apologist episode
you inbred fuckers lost

get over it

This dude literally has the cleanest Southern accent imaginable.

I would have listened to this guy talk about anything just because of his voice

>Sup Forums felates a jew
nah

So did the Native Americans. Do you also hate them?

natives didnt genocide an entire continent and enslave another one.

he's a historian, fuccboi

Yeah. They were a peaceful people who didn't slaughter and enslave each other at any chance they could....

so before you fuck off back to /r/the_donald or Sup Forums how about you LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF GENOCIDE

>the CSA genocided the Indians
Dumb

Shelby Foote was not a historian.

Stop de-railing my OP thread, this is for Civil War memes and discussion ONLY

look man i'm sorry your mom had you so late in life, but it's not our fault

Well you s*whistles*hee, the S*whistles*outh was*whistles* fighting with its hands*whistles* tied behind it's back.

I don't really believe the S*whistles*outh could have won that war...

I wrote the pitch for an Alt-History TV series where the Confederate States won the Civil War and exists in a state of muted hostility with the United States in the 1930s. Huey Long and FDR are elected president of their respective countries and have work together to first deal with the Great Depression and later the rise of Nazi Germany.

A major sideplot involves a nine month pregnant Anne Frank being saved from certain death by a young Shelby Foote, a captain in the Confederate States Army. William Faulkner gets a cameo too.

You fuckers want to read it?

What? No wants to read so they can call me a faggot and tell me to kill myself?

>nigger-loving liberals actually believe this

His endgame was to convince everyone that the Confederates weren't just le evil racist bad guys.

>Who are the Aztecs and Mayans

no but the natives did mostly side with the confederates
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_in_the_American_Civil_War

>it's a "pol pretends the civil war wasn't about slavery" episode
You soyboys are pathetic no wonder you lost

>stormniggers call Shelby Foote a Jewish shill
>regular niggers call Shelby Foote a Nazi

Clearly, the man did something right.

>tfw no one wants to read it if only just to talk shit about it

McPherson plz go

Oh yeah and I secretly put Battle Cry of Freedom in the children's fiction section at the bookstore I work at.

t.

>watch the doco for the first times before going home for chrimbus one year
>parents have watched it multiple times
>I come home and say some shit like "Ah Cum on downa, ah come on down thuh Shenandoah, you see, and what was so in-tuh-rest-ing about that, was the LAY OF THE LAND, you see."

>they knew Ah was being Shelby Foote, as best as ah was able, in my own naive way *satisfied chuckle*

>tfw no Jew producers lurking this thread to try and steal my idea

>watch The Civil War
>go to pick up gf from her father's plantation in a Union soldier's outfit to be cute, she's kind of a history fan like me
>her dad isn't
>he comes out, with his white beard and hair and wrinkly face, all red and shouting at me
>tells me Sherman burned this place down back in the March to the Sea and his father's family basically ruined themselves putting it back together
>I tell him it was his granddaddy's fault for being a traitor and a secessionist
>gf gets really mad and locks herself in the car while her dad yells at me
>Im just giggling and asking him how it feels working a plantation with no slaves
>he calls Lincoln a nigger lover
>mfw
>I tip my regiment cap to him and bid him good day
>return to my car
>gf screaming at me to bring the good ol bugle boys and sing another song
SING IT WITH SPIRIT THAT WILL START THE WORLD ALONG
SING IT AS WE USED TO SING IT FIFTY THOUSAND STRONG
WHILE WE WERE MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIAAAAA

>What was his endgame?
To cause another millitary conflict so he can continue to make documentaries

Except it's mainly his critics who are hellbent on doing that.

Ken Burns baseball is comfier, but I guess you have to be interested in baseball

*gets possessed by Richard Nixon's ghost*

>natives didnt genocide an entire continent and enslave another one.
They literally fucking did.

Criminally underrated

Berdan's Sharpshooters?

still alive and bearssing around

Making me want to rewatch Civil War Combat

Just tell us what it’s about

Yay :D

This is sorta intended to function as a pilot or prequel that catches the audience's attention and reels them in so they'll get hooked and keep watching for the rest of the series.

Anyway...

>Peter van Pels gets Anne Frank pregnant
>when Anne discovered she was pregnant, her and Peter's parents, enraged and blaming the other for what happened, nearly came to blows and were only stopped by the fact they would most certainly draw attention.
>Anne's father spends what little resources he still had arranging for her to smuggled out of the Annex and into the countryside as her due date nears, demanding that Peter accompany her to force him to take responsibility and protect his daughter if necessary
>the pastor of an old church (one that inexpicably resembles the Dunker Church in Sharpsburg, Maryland) takes Anne and Peter in both out of pity for their unborn child and a sense of duty to protect others
>initially cold to Peter, having blamed him for their \ shared predicament, Anne finds that writing in her diary, playful arguments over things like baby names, and sex are the only things that alleviate the boredom (having no other means of entertaining themselves) and ever present sense of fear, and they now do it constantly
>Anne is emotionally wracked by nervousness and fear. Fear for her parents, her sister, Peter, their unborn child, and for herself. Fear of the Germans, being captured, dying in childbirth, of being socially ostracized. However the lovemaking not only drives those thoughts from her mind, but gives her a sense of hope that they (her, Peter, the baby) will survive this war.
>their survival rests on the bold and the fearless (the whole "people sleep peaceably at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" thing).

>one day in mid-September, the two of them are unable to tolerate being crammed together in the small building and sneak off into a nearby tulip field to fuck as the sun sets over the Netherlands, they do it again later that night
>they're captured asleep and unclothed in a pre-dawn raid by the Gestapo who are sweeping the countryside for Dutch resistance cells
>as they're about to loaded onto a truck to be taken to a concentration camp, the Germans are attacked by an unseen foe, firing in volleys from the trees and the tulip field, suffering many casualties, while Anne and Peter take cover behind the truck
>the attackers burst out of their hiding spots and drive the surviving Gestapo off with a bayonet charge, whooping, hollering, and barking seemingly like wild animals. Their bloodcurdling screams terrify Anne, sounding like something out of her worst nightmares
>Anne and Peter finally come face to face with their rescuers
>Anne initially mistakes them for being German as well because of their gray uniforms (this occurs after the July 20th Plot so that would make sense), but realizes her error when they start speaking an unusual accent of English, which she had some limited knowledge of

>Anne takes notice of the dashing young men and their pic related uniforms (I was gonna leave it up to the writefag how to describe them) and is so awestruck by the beautifully made coats, she immediately has her head filled with fantasies of Peter wearing one. As the soldiers approach, she notices their flag's peculiar choice of stars (link related, their actual flag that was captured at Antietam commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11th_Mississippi_Infantry_Regiment_battle_flag_army.mil-2008-09-10-145530.jpg) and finds herself overcome with emotion, having associated that star with the oppression of Jews for so long. She asks their commanding officer, a Colonel named Faulkner , through a translator who they are, and he replies that his men simply call themselves the "University Greys"
>to show her gratitude Anne kisses the cheek of a color sergeant who is carrying this strange flag she's never seen before (not being familiar with American history and all) , Peter feels a pang of jealousy for a moment. However the stern but most gentleman-like NCO defuses the situation by rejecting her perceived advances and getting her to redirect her affection toward Peter.
>one of the soldiers, noticing how how poorly clothed the two are (Anne's dress is comically too small to fit her, Peter's are too thin for cold weather, both haven't had a change in clothes in weeks), hands them his coat, saying they'll need it more than he will
>the others hand Anne some of their food and water out of sympathy
>the soldiers get into formation and leave
>Anne puts the coat on Peter, telling him he looks nice in it, and the two start walking down the road looking up at the rising sun to see hundreds of parachutes descending from the sky
>Anne feels the baby kick and for the first time in years feels like everything might actually be okay

Has anyone actually read his books? I think he focused too much on the military angle and not at all on economics. It's kinda the classical take where people think Civil War was exclusively about battles and famous generals. At least he's not blatantly pro-South, I'll give him that.

>a few days later
>Anne and Peter who have been hiding in the woods for the last several days to avoid being caught up in the fighting accidentally stumble into an artillery camp the Allied soldiers had set up
>the sentries immediately become suspicious of Peter (on account of him being military age, speaking broken English with a German accent, and wearing one of their Army's coats) and start aggressively questioning him
>Anne and Peter try to explain that they're Jews but the language barrier prevents it
>the soldiers are on the verge of detaining Peter when they're stopped by an officer who invites Anne and Peter to come to his tent
>the most gentleman-like officer to their surprise starts speaking to them in fluent German, introducing himself as "Captain Foote" and that he works for military intelligence (usually questioning German prisoners)
> Foote serves them sweet tea (which Anne has never tasted before) and explains that he had previously heard about the deportation of Jews while in France
>he offers to let them spend the night in his tent, give them fresh clothes and a pass allowing them to travel freely through Allied lines, and to have a doctor look at Anne in exchange for an interview
>Anne and Peter, both still traumatized by recent events, are initially hesitant, but agree to tell their story after Foote reveals to them that he is Jewish himself
>hours pass
>horrified by their description of the mistreatment of Dutch Jews, Foote tells them that he will open a formal Army investigation into the matter
>Anne turns her diary over to Captain Foote as evidence
>the next morning, Foote , having spent the night reading through the diary abruptly returns it to Anne, telling her that she has a talent for writing, that people need to know what is happening to the Jews of Europe, and he can help her get it published in his country once the war is over
>Anne and Peter, exhausted and surprised by this abrupt change in fortune, simply nod in agreement

If you're a Jew producer and want to steal this plot, go right on ahead.

Here's the music I was listening when I conceived of this to if you need inspiration

youtube.com/watch?v=54sSF5JS_HA

Well the economic aspect of the Civil War was still largely understudied at the time he wrote the books. It's come more into focus in recent years.

Speaking of which, I'd definitely recommend Modernizing a Slave Economy by John Majewski,

this, its the comfiest sport imaginable
but i dont think half this board could handle it once it talks about the negro leagues and such

I have.

I just watched the first episode after seeing this thread

>that ending with the letter

Just wait until you read Sam Watkins' diary

>"As soon as the order was given to march, we saw poor Tom Webb lying on the battlefield shot through the head, his blood and brains smearing his face and clothes, and he still alive. He was as brave and noble a man as our Heavenly Father, in His infinite wisdom, ever made. Everybody loved him. He was a universal favorite of the company and regiment; was brave and generous, and ever anxious to take some other man's place when there was any skirmishing or fighting to be done. We did not wish to leave the poor fellow in that condition, and A. S. Horsley, John T. Tucker, Tennessee Thompson and myself got a litter and carried him on our shoulders through that livelong night back to Chickamauga Station. The next morning Dr. J. E. Dixon, of Deshler's brigade, passed by and told us that it would be useless for us to carry him any further, and that it was utterly impossible for him ever to recover. The Yankees were then advancing and firing upon us. What could we do? We could not carry him any further, and we could not bury him, for he was still alive. To leave him where he was we thought best. We took hold of his hand, bent over him and pressed our lips to his--all four of us. We kissed him good-bye and left him to the tender mercies of the advancing foe, in whose hands he would be in a few moments. No doubt they laughed and jeered at the dying Rebel. It mattered not what they did, for poor Tom Webb's spirit, before the sun went down, was with God and the holy angels. He had given his all to his country. O, how we missed him. It seemed that the very spirit and life of Company H had died with the death of good, noble and brave Tom Webb. I thank God that I am no infidel, and I feel and believe that I will again see Tom Webb. Just as sure and certain, reader, as you are now reading these lines, I will meet him up yonder--I know I will."

:^)

NO TRUMP NO

>What are the Incans?
>What are the Mayans?
>What are the Aztecs?
Holy fuck you're dumb.

I would uniroically compromise our missile defenses for the Russians if it meant the North would be turned into glass.