In which John Green teaches you how the Civil War played a large part in making the United States the country that it is today. He covers some of the key ways ...
========== †CCUS 21 - The Civil War Part 2
Hi, I’m John Green; this is Crash Course U.S. history and today we return to...wait,
what are we talking about today, Stan? Ah, the Civil War! I can tell because Lincoln’s
here. But this week we’re not gonna talk about
casualty counts or battles or its generals with their heroic and probably fictional dying
declarations. Mr. Green, Mr. Green, wait did that one guy
not really say “Honeybun how do I look in the face?” because that was the best part
of this whole class. Jeb Stewart did say that, Me from the Past,
but it probably wasn’t his last words, but anyway today we’re going to try to focus
on what’s really important. In the end the really vital stuff isn’t,
like, Pickett’s Charge or Lee saying “It is well that war is so terrible...