Who else watched "The American Revolution" Ch. 1 last night? [View all]

We did, and couldn't help drawing a couple of parallels with some things going on in the country right today. For instance, the sending of British troops to assorted cities to quell so-called ^unrest" exactly parallels Shitler's use of ICE/Border Patrol/National Guard in places like Portland, Chicago, Charlotte, LA. Then there was the Stamp Act and other taxes that more or less parallels the tariffs which make the essentials of daily living so much more expensive now. And George III's not having a clue and so having a habit of listening to advisors who were only in it for themselves. Not to mention that by then, he was at least in the beginning stages of, if not full blown, bipolar disorder, which kind of parallels with Shitler having dementia. It was all pretty interesting and thought-provoking. What else was interesting that the writers pointed out was that a majority of Americans *save the Black population and some, but not all, indentured servants) were literate. I pointed out to my husband that in the north and even down into Appalachia at the time, this was because a majority of them were Protestant and literacy was important to them because they were meant to be educated enough to read their Bible, Southern Americans were by and large of a more educated class (at the time) and so were also more likely to be literate.

I found it all extremely interesting and thought-provoking and I really wished that my American History professor from UW-Madison, William Appleman Williams, had been alive at the time the series was mad to give his thoughts on the subject. He would have had some interesting perspectives, as I remember his class.