tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31432976.post2837159655284628376..comments2023-08-10T07:41:11.827-07:00Comments on Bajillion: Part Of The Civil War In Four MinutesTommaso Sciortinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13682166317937996902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31432976.post-72149492719667959562007-05-29T14:29:00.000-07:002007-05-29T14:29:00.000-07:00Pity, the video was taken down. Though from the d...Pity, the video was taken down. Though from the description I think perhaps it is a good grand scope video. A half year highschool course covering the entirety of world history (or failing to cover if you will) would do well to use something like that just to let people know there was a Civil War in this country and that yes, it was violent.<BR/><BR/>Seemingly among friends for the appreciation of trees within forests let me just add that specifics allow for greater breadth of context. Knowing about Pickett's Charge and why it failed allows one to understand the awful foolishness of World War I all the better (and why Perhshing refused to give up command of his troops to the French. A pattern of not putting U.S. troops under foreign command that continues, albeit in a weaker form, to this day). To use flog the forest analogy one last time, studying a redwood withing one forest with grants an understanding of all redwoods. That is to say history is not just several definite periods but just one vast period messily interconnected.Birneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15645718656239034032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31432976.post-73806209828121405082007-05-24T13:09:00.000-07:002007-05-24T13:09:00.000-07:00Fair enough. It's certainly a neat visual represe...Fair enough. It's certainly a neat visual representation of the course of the military conflict and, provided you've got a fair sense of the background, pretty interesting to watch. I think it's a reasonably good answer to the question, "How bloody and tedious was the war?"Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510253316398518908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31432976.post-33198656378371432212007-05-24T13:07:00.000-07:002007-05-24T13:07:00.000-07:00I suppose different people learn different ways. T...I suppose different people learn different ways. This might be useful if you were already familiar with the actual battles of the civil war but if you had a less sophisticated understanding (like I do) then it's not terribly helpful.Tommaso Sciortinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682166317937996902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31432976.post-75486715754237246752007-05-24T13:04:00.000-07:002007-05-24T13:04:00.000-07:00I don't disagree with you. Perhaps I was too crypt...I don't disagree with you. Perhaps I was too cryptic in my comments, but I certainly wouldn't want to have that video substitute for a full study of the Civil War. What I thought was interesting is what it could add to that study -- how it could help create a piece of context.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01784866518186243240noreply@blogger.com