Disappointing, Sensationalistic and Full of Errors
I'm a history buff, but no scholar, so I sat down to watch these shows with a feeling of anticipation. Oh well...life is full of disappointments, I guess. By the way, I'm rating this "1" because they don't have an option for "zero."
What has happened to the History Channel? Once their stuff was worth watching. But I've read better comic book accounts than the stuff in this.
Let's see. 10 things you didn't know about Lincoln--he slept with men. Puh-leeze. Does nobody know that at most boarding houses in the 19th century and before, men slept in beds together? If they really wanted to say something most people don't know about Lincoln, why didn't they explain the rationale behind the overblown Emancipation Proclamation, which didn't free a single slave at the time it was written and was only put out to shut up the more rabid Republicans? What about Abraham Lincoln BEST UNKNOWN QUOTE, when he told Horace Greeley in an 1862 letter "If I could save the Union without...
Speculative distortion
This is all stuff you didn't know because a lot of it is stuff no one knows but the make-believe artists making it up. I've read many books about Hitler and I can tell you that all of the "facts" in the disc on Hitler are half-truth speculations! Hitler feared something about his past but a potential Jewish grandfather has pretty much been ruled out- a history of mental illness is more likely. Hitler was a bit weird with women but all the psycho-sexual analysis he's been subjected to still leaves his actual physical relationships with them a mystery. He was probably no weirder than many of OUR politicians today! This series is classic propagandistic distortion- it encourages stupidity instead of curiosity. Don't be fooled- you may not know- BUT NEITHER DO THESE CLOWNS!
Utter garbage
Does the History Channel exercise any sort of editorial review before airing this guy's show? I have lost all respect for this network.
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