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For example in january 1865, ab maryland has abolished slavery. Bn. The confederates are talking about offering limited emancipation in order for talk service in the army. Things have changed. This was not a debate they woult have in the cabinet in the way that Tony Horowitz or steven in spielberg portrayed. Such its such a wonderful thing to see, a film addressing such a fm complicated issues, but the timing is all wrong. Timi ecti from ave dramatic perspective, frostbite an Artistic License perspective is totally understandable. They need to create drama and tension. This is act i, right . S...

The lieutenant and commanded the first Nato Training Mission in afghanistan before retiring. He was a very animated and energetic speaker. He always made it interesting. He was first person who ever actually make history something that i wanted to go sit down and talk to because he didnt really teach history nearly as much as he told stories. Isnt that what history really is . Its a story. Its our story. Its the story of what got us here today. So we commemorate the battle crater which is just one story of our nation. Now as i said earlier im not a great story teller so i will leave the detail...

Theres a scene on the day of the vote where Fernando Wood is waving papers saying i have affidavits. Thats not 19th century congress. Thats what you realize when you see a movie like lincoln. Or think about mr. Smith goes to washington, almost all of what we think we know about past politics comes from movies. And popular culture, and we absorb it so much, we think its real. Thats why its so important to try to sort it out. I dont want to be one of those scholar squirrels that gore vidal used to make fun of, but thats what i have been doing, digging around in the script and pointing out the sm...

Climactic scene on the floor of the house on the day of the vote, january 1st, 1865, they have james spader and john hay running to the white house to get the note from lincoln. None of that happened. The note, we think, is real, though we dont have the original of it. Its a recollection from james ashley, but James Spaders character, william bilbo, was in new york at the time, at the st. Nicolas hotel. The lobbyists were in new york in the final weeks of the fight working the press. The race scene is just a hollywood chase scene. Its no different than the airport race scene in argo and i have...

Guns within the fort. They started building it very early and kept working on it and changing it to the place where it was eventually the fifth largest. You had basically during the war green guns and black guns with bronze and the iron. Usually the bronze was smooth ore and the black guns were rifled guns. And the rifled guns, of course, had a better range and actually fired better. But a gun like this was a good antipersonnel weapon. There were various types of ammunition you could use in this, plus even at times you could put chains and Everything Else in here and fire it at an enemy. And, ...