America: A History of Us. History Channel, Premieres Sunday April 25 at 9/8c

History Channel? In before the segment on Nostradamus predicting the Panic of 1837.

"See, he was only off by a few letters!"

I think watching the Ken Burns trilogy (The West, Civil War and the War) and the American Experience series can pretty much say everything that needs to be known about the country. How America was "invented?"

 

So I guess it won't be shown in Texas, then?

pouhe, if you haven't seen his Lewis & Clark doc, it's damn good too.

 

Ditto Jazz

 

Yeah, the "History Channel" has always surprised me with its political stance and filter. Especially during Iraq II, it was like propaganda central. Nightly "documentaries" about how awful Saddam is/was; and it was like, um, okay, I guess it was good we launched a war to overthrow him?

Other times, a piece or two seems okay and just focused on the facts.

Maybe it just depends on the producer of a given piece. But overall, the historians I know think it's laughably bad, which is too bad. (I don't watch it except when I'm home with my parents, who alternate between FOX, ESPN and History.)

So I'm not going to be watching this series. There are so many good books to plow through before I watch what is probably a political-party sanctioned version of our nation's past. The fact that one of our local paid-per-thread G.O.Tea colleagues has posted this notice only reaffirms my fears for this particular series.

 

I have not read a single word of this thread, but does this have anything to do with a Festivus for the Rest-of-us?

 

did you get defensive and think of the joke when limbaugh threatened to move to costa rica?

 

Why are you so pissed off with our lack of anger ?

 

He pointed up the constant anger not the lack of anger.

Here's another version: An elephant and his ant friend were hiding from the big game hunter. When the time was right, the made a dash for the jungle but had to cross an old bridge which made the wooden bridge planks bounce and rattle.

When they had disappeared into the safety of the jungle once again, the ant turned to the elephant breathlessly and said, "Boy we sure made that bridge rattle, didn't we?"

 

Ha! That graph is made up. You know that, right?

 

why make it a goal? why dont you just pack up your bags and get out????

 

you dont think NBC, ABC, CNN have a political stance and filter?? if anything they are far more liberal than the history channel is conservative which I dont think it is. They focus on a wide variety of programing. I know my brother watches those stupid ghost shows with his buddies. I dont see how that has anything to do with history.

I do agree that Fox is definitely Pro-Republican. But I find it funny how the left never acknowledge that CNN, ABC, NBC news are definitely Pro-Democrat.

So you watch what you want and if you want the truth its probably somewhere in between. But almost all news outlets are a joke these days.