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“Slavery, race, and the assassination”
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“Frederick Aiken: A Rookie Defender”
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“The Private Life of Mary Surratt”
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“April 1865: Lincoln, Washington City, and the Civil War's End”
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“Educator Resource: Women During the Civil War”
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“The Best American History Movies NEVER Made”
158 commentsNov 17, 2009 at 4:00pm
As we at the American Film Company have endeavored to turn American history into movies, I've been struck by how many amazing true stories have not been given the green light...
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“Historians View the Assassination”
87 commentsNov 17, 2009 at 4:00pm
In April of 1865 most northerners had little trouble discerning who was behind the assassination; they were convinced the Confederate government was involved.
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“Brig. Gen. Joseph Holt - His Role as Chief Prosecutor in the Military Tribunal”
73 commentsNov 17, 2009 at 4:00pm
Joseph Holt, a Kentucky lawyer and staunch Unionist, was confirmed by the Congress as President Lincoln's Judge Advocate General on September 3, 1862. This made Holt the top lawyer in the Army, and the principal legal advisor to Lincoln on all military legal matters.
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Guilford
A good biopic of Nathanael Greene and the characters that he worked with to struggle through leadership of the southern campaign in the Revolutionary War is a great idea for a movie. While broad in scope, the characters can carry this story of struggle in a very unforgiving world. Greene himself, the "father" of American cavalry William Washington, Robert E. Lee's father "Light Horse" Harry Lee, Peter Francisco, Daniel Morgan (Boone's uncle), Francis Marion, and other very interesting and exciting characters worked to develop and carry out a campaign against the very professional British Army under Cornwallis to end the war. What a story!
from The Best American History Movies NEVER MadeI'm wondering what happened to the films that were in development already, specifically about Paul Revere and the other "midnight riders," and the other one about John Brown. They have simply disappeared from the site! I was really looking forward to the Midnight Riders movie. What an exciting, very dramatic couple of days that would depict!
crazychicken123
I have watched a lot of movies made about Lincoln and the Civil War and I am amazed that I am still learning. I research each fact and while most of them are true there are still a lot of false ideas out there.
from The Best American History Movies NEVER MadeShnepule
All posts are very interested and well informational.
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tdeleon
Stories of how slave labor was used to build the county, ie-the story of the White House, also economic realities of slavery and the south, why the south wanted to keep slavery, why some pockets in the south are still resistant today, link the past and present, there are still people today that want to re-fight the Civil War.
from The Best American History Movies NEVER MadeFrederick Douglass
tdeleon
Most of us, unless we have hunted down biographies know very little about all of the presidents lives, the politics and cultural tribulations of the different periods of time in American History.
from The Best American History Movies NEVER MadeStarting with the greats, maybe Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, but also I have heard there was a gay president-James Buchanan, a president that was assassinated McKinley, etc,
I would like to know more about all of our presidents, film would be a great way to learn their stories.