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Today we talk with author J. Budziszewski, scholar and professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin about his new book: How and How Not to Be Happy. J Budziszewski takes us through his journey to happiness and in what ways we should define the meaning of happiness.Learn More About our Guest:Author J. Budziszewskihttps://www.regnery.com/9781684511075/how-and-how-not-to-be-happy/You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:Begin Transcript:, [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. Thank you again for listening to beyond the big screen podcast. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Jay Buddha. Shefsky author of how and how not to be happy links to learn more about Jay Buddha Shefsky can be found in the show notes.You can now support beyond the big screen on Patrion by joining on Patrion. You help keep beyond the big screen going and get many great benefits. Go over to patrion.com/beyond the big screen to learn more. And of course a special, thanks goes out to our patron, Alex, at the executive producer level, we are a member of the Parthenon podcast network.You can learn more about great shows like professor James [00:01:00] Earley's key data's of American history podcast. By going over to Parthenon podcast.com you of course can learn more about beyond the big screen, great movies and stories. So great. They should be movies by. Going over to our website, a twosie history page.com.I thank you again for joining me behind the big screen.

Coming Soon on Beyond the Big Screen!You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Today we are joined by Shawn Warwick, host of The American History Podcast to look at the 1941 Japanese attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. We will discuss the infamous incident from many different and unconventional angles. Shawn will also share his views on the movie 2001 Pearl Harbor and how he attended the premiere of the film on the USS John Stennis aircraft carrier!Learn More About our Guest:Shawn Warwick, host of The American History Podcastwww.theamericanhistorypodcast.comYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By Kogo - Own work, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3936577Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Shawn Warwick, host of The American History Podcast. Links to learn more about Shawn and his podcast can be found at www.theamericanhistorypodcast.com or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon.com/beyondthebigscreen to learn more.A special thanks goes out to Alex at the Executive Producer level!Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network featuring great shows like: Josh Cohen’s Eyewitness History can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.

Today we are joined again by Professor James Early of the Key Battles of American History Podcast to talk about the 1998 World War 2 film, The Thin Red Line. This is a controversial movie. It completely breaks the commonly held ideas about what a war movie should be. Is The Thin Red Line what a movie about war really should be? Learn More About our Guest:James Early, host of Key Battles of American History PodcastKeybattlesofamericanhistory.comYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3154194Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to James Early of the Key Battles of American History podcast. Links to learn more about James and his podcast can be found at keybattlesofamericanhistory.com or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon.com/beyondthebigscreen to learn more.A special thanks goes out to Alex at the Executive Producer level!Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network featuring great shows like: our guest James Early’s Key Battles of American History Podcast can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.

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Title: A Penny Saved, A Penny Earned and the Last Bet of Benjamin FranklinDescription: Today we are joined by Michael Meyer, author of Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet. Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, but his legacy lives on to this day. One particularly important part of his legacy is a trust he left to the people of Boston and Philadelphia. This trust grew financially, but like much of Benjamin Franklin’s history, it is not well known.Original Publication Date: Learn More About our Guest:Michael Meyer, Author of Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bethttps://inmanchuria.com/You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Michael Meyer, author of Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet. Links to learn more about Michael Meyer and his books can be found at his website inmanchuria.com or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon.com/beyondthebigscreen to learn more.A special thanks goes out to Alex at the Executive Producer level!Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network featuring great shows like: Scott Rank’s History Unplugged Podcast can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.Benjamin Franklin[00:00:00] I am very excited to have Michael Meyer on the show today to talk about, uh, one of the largest and most charismatic characters in American history. Benjamin Franklin, Michael Meyer is author of Benjamin Franklins. Last bet. The favorite founding fathers, divisive death, and during afterlife and blueprint for American prosperity.Michael is the author of numerous books and articles. He was a Fulbright scholar and a professor. And is a professor of nonfiction writing at the university of Pittsburgh. Thank you, Michael so much for joining me to talk about the amazing life and afterlife of Benjamin Franklin. It's an honor to be here.Thanks for having me. I have a, kind of a personal story about some of the things you've talked about. I lived in Philadelphia for a while and I would walk by Benjamin Franklin's grave almost [00:01:00] every day to meet my. For a work and it just almost became like a normal thing. I think a good place to start is what's maybe the standard telling if you had to tell somebody who's maybe not from the U S and give them a broad overview of who is Benjamin Franklin.That's a great question. He was large and contain multitudes. Um, you know, you can divide his, like he lived quite a long time, you know, he's, he, he straddled the 18th century, so he was 84 years old and the first 42 years of his life are devoted to business and he's, you know, he would never call himself self-made he was an autodidact for sure.Uh, you know, apprentice in a print shop and in his father's candle making shop in Boston fled his brother. Got down to Philadelphia on a boat. Um, and then, you know, became the legendary Benjamin Franklin worked as a printer, um, benefited greatly from his wife's, uh, assistance and her [00:02:00] family. Um, and as he was being an entrepreneur in Philadelphia with his print shop and starting the Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper, which became the.The newspaper and the colonies and poor Richard's Almanac. Um, he's also tinkering, he's an inveterate tinkerer. He's always looking to improve things around his house. Um, he invents things as you know, various as, uh, the lightning rod, the catheter. Swim fins. Um, he invents a musical instrument called the harmonium.He perfects the odometer. And I think one thing really interesting about him is that he refused, there was no patent office at that time, but he could have applied for a exclusive commercial license for his inventions, but he felt very strongly that as we benefit from the technology, others. Others should benefit from our own technology.And so I think we could credit him as a forerunner of the open source movement as well. So at age 42, he retires from business [00:03:00] and he decides to devote himself almost wholly to philanthropy and starts a great number of charitable causes that you walking around Philadelphia could still see. Uh, the Pennsylvania hospital is still there.The Philadelphia academy, which became the university of Pennsylvania is still there. The American philosophical society is still there. The great library next to independence hall, and then find the last act of Franklin's life is he becomes a diplomat. Um, he spent nearly 30 years of his life as she is his older years overseas living in either London or in Paris.Uh, the latter time, you know, lobbying on behalf to try to attract French support for. Uh, the war, um, and then, you know, his last dying act, he had two great. Penn strokes to end his life. The first was he presented the first petition for the abolishment of slavery to the Senate. Franklin was a slave owner.His family held up to seven slaves, uh, that worked in his print shop and around the house, um, uniquely among founders. Old people in [00:04:00] general, he became more progressive as he aged, um, and realized that that, that his slave owning was, uh, a mark on his, on his legacy. And he wanted to repudiate that. And of course, after fighting for Liberty, it was hypocritical to say, well, we should still have the slave trade in the liberated United States.That was one thing he did. The second thing he did, which we're going to talk about today is he added a final codicil to his will. Um, uh, a dying bet as. On the survival of working class trades people for the next 200 years, it's really interesting that he was born in Boston in the early 17 hundreds. And then he moved to Philadelphia and those are two areas that had really stark different, uh, cultures and just everything.It's almost like a moving to a foreign country in a lot of ways for him. One made Franklin move from. From Boston [00:05:00] to Philadelphia, he was in denture to his older brother and he hated the work he wanted to get out of it so badly. And so a couple of years into his indenture dump in dentures, um, he fled, he ran away.It was illegal at time, but he still broke, uh, the bond. Uh, he hoped to go to New York city. That was the thought in New York was smaller than Philadelphia at the time. Um, Broadway was still a cattle trail if, if, if it even existed at that time, but he ended up continuing onward to Philadelphia, which you're right.These are polar opposites. These towns, you know, Boston known for its academies, um, for its genteel society, very old England sort of sore, you know, Puritan driven. Whereas Philadelphia was a bustling. And became the largest city in the United States and the colonial America as well while Franklin was living there.And then in the United States, much more diverse, uh, much more entrepreneurial in spirit, you know, in the book, I talk about how you can [00:06:00] trace a lot of the men who knew Franklin's father, you know, a hundred years ago, those descendants were the new mayors of Boston. You know, the Quincy's Quincy, the fourth and Quincy.Whereas in Philadelphia, you know, the person they elected to serve as mayor 16 times was a person who, uh, professed hated learning and had apprentice as a Hatter. It was just a very, very different, um, a very, very different backdrop. You're right. And I think had, had Franklin stayed in Boston. He couldn't have become the entrepreneur inventor.Um, and diplomat, you know, sort of statesman that he became, he also spent some time in London. What did, uh, what was he doing in London? How did he get to London? And what did that maybe add to his character? I think, you know, how did they get to London the first time around? It was really carelessness when he was a young man that had, had landed in Philadelphia.

Title: Settling Grudges with Turkeys and More from Early American HistoryDescription: Today we are joined by Sarah Tanksalvala of the Rejects and Revolutionaries The Origins of America Podcast to talk about some of the strangest and most surprising episodes from pre-Revolutionary American History. Sarah will tell us Gunpowder Plot organizers, the last battle of the English Civil War and other fascinating and less known facts of early American history.Original Publication Date: Learn More About our Guest:Sarah Tanksalvala host of Rejects and Revolutionaries: The Origins of AmericaPodcasthttps://americanhistorypodcast.net/You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:Begin Transcript:Thank you again for listening to Beyond the Big Screen podcast. We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast network. Of course, a big thanks goes out to Sarah Tanksalvala of the Rejects and Revolutionaries: The Origins of America Podcast. Links to learn more about Sarah and Rejects and Revolutionaries Podcast can be found at https://americanhistorypodcast.net/ or in the Show Notes. You can now support beyond the big screen on Patreon. By joining on Patreon and Subscribe star, you help keep Beyond the Big Screen going and get many great benefits. Go to patreon.com/beyondthebigscreen to learn more.A special thanks goes out to Alex at the Executive Producer level!Another way to support Beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think of the show and help other people learn about Beyond the Big screen. More about the Parthenon Podcast Network featuring great shows like: Richard Lim’s This American President Podcast can be found at Parthenonpodcast.com. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen, great movies and stories so great they should be movies on various social media platforms by searching for A to z history. Links to all this and more can be found at beyond the big screen dot com. I thank you for joining me again, Beyond the big Screen.[00:00:00] Today, we're joined by a very special guest and beyond the big screen alumni, Sarah tank, Savala of the rejects and revolutionary American history podcasts Sara's podcast tells the story of American history from its very beginnings. These are all stories and events that are now widely known and are all, many of them are definitely stranger than fiction.So you hear people talk about early American history and their. You know, talking about the revolutionary war era and it's just like, no, no, it started so much before that and all that, this was going on, like all these debates and all of this, all these struggles were going on at the same time. And it was just like, or in that earlier time than it was just amazing.We're going to do this as sort of a top 10 list, the top 10 surprising facts about the 17th [00:01:00] century American history and moments that would definitely be stranger than fiction and deserve their own movie treatments. So who, what is your top? Your number 10. So we're going from 10 to one. What's your number 10 surprising fact about American history early colonial American history.So, um, my 10th one is just the life of Pocahontas, his son, Thomas Rolfe. Um, we always think about, um, the story of Pocahontas in John, Ralph and John Smith and all of that that went on, but he actually lived this really interesting. Um, himself, and we don't know that much about him, but it's like through him that some 10,000 estimated people are descended from Pocahontas today.And, um, what we do know about him, it's really interesting though. Cause he was, um, so he was born, well, he was born in Virginia, but he grew up in [00:02:00] England. Um, Like John, Ralph and Pocahontas sit gone back to England and she had died there in 16, 17, and he had gone back to Virginia and he died five years later.Um, and so he ended up being raised in England by an uncle of his. And then he ended up and then when he was 20, he moved back to America. And so he was sort of this half Palatan Indian who was raised in England and ended up going back to Virginia. And, um, I find that to be just fascinating to start with.And then he ended up, um, he ended up meeting his uncle. He requested permission to meet with his power Putin uncle OB chonga knew who was the orchestrator of the 1622 massacre and of another massacre in 1643 or 44. When that second massacre happened in 1644. W [00:03:00] Thomas Ralf ended up actually leading troops against the power button for the English.And so he ended up being this really sort of a fluent leading. Member of Virginia society, but he still clearly had enough, um, connection to his pallet and ancestry that he developed those relationships. But when the two sides went to war, he had some decisions to make. And I would've loved to know like what, you know, what went into those decisions, but we don't know that about him, but I think he'd be a fascinating person.To know more about, or to even imagine more about in some sort of a biography or biopic. So that's our, that's your number 10 now, number nine, you have a next one. The battle of the Severn. Yes. So that was really interesting because that, I mean, you could make an argument, maybe not the strongest argument, but you can make an argument that it was the last battle of the English [00:04:00] civil war, because, you know, Over the course of the English civil war, the English government has been, um, completely overturned.The King's been beheaded and then. The question comes, like what happens to each of these colonies and Maryland in particular was an extremely controversial colony because it had, um, well, it had a very strong Catholic foundation, which was really, really not liked in England at the time, especially by the Puritans who had gotten control in the English, civil war and Maryland always sort of, they always had to tread this.Middle ground of like, not being Catholic, but being tolerant towards Catholics and. The question was, would this be enough by the time that the English civil war had ended? And there was a clear political divide in addition to the religious divide within Maryland, there've been increasing numbers of [00:05:00] Puritans in Maryland, especially after they got sort of kicked out of Virginia, Maryland gave them a place to stay, um, in the name of religious toleration, which became the sort of thing that.That Maryland champion, the idea that Maryland championed in these early years. And so by the time that all of this has happened, the question became like would the new government of England, um, recognize the old government of Maryland, which was under this Catholic guy, uh, Lord Baltimore. And. In the time when that question was being asked, there were two groups of people who there were all these things happening.There were two groups of people who ended up going. To, um, essentially to war with each other. They had one big battle in 1655 where like, um, 400 people showed up and that's in a [00:06:00] colony, which at this point in time was, we don't know exactly what the population was, but it would be between sort of a quarter and a fifth of the male population turning out to fight in this battle.And ultimately, uh, ultimately the Puritans had a lot more military experience and they have a lot more organization and they had a lot more resources and they ended up just completely destroying the sort of Anglican Catholic Presbyterian, um, group. And, um, and then the question, the question still wasn't answered.And then the Pearson's ended up just really, um, they ended up behaving sort of non admirably at the end of this battle. They ended up, uh, illegally executing for prisoners and they had sentenced 10 more to be illegally executed, but [00:07:00] then they, um, they, some people, some of the soldiers who had just come over from England and didn't have as much of a personal investment in the fight and some of the women of the colonies.Ask them to back down because a lot of this, the thing is a lot of this was really personal for people. Like they had known each other and they had had these animosities building up for 20 years at these, at this point. And, and so you can, it just, it went really downhill, but I think. How much the English civil war affected America is, is always something that I never really understood very well.And listening to your podcast, it really, there was such a connection between the two, but then there's also like you were saying that, that on the ground too, that these people hated each other personally, but then they have all these gripes too, that are the bigger picture gripes. So it's really, it's a really fascinating [00:08:00] interplay.Oh, it is it's, it's amazing how much it it's amazing. So much of what happened in America. So much of what we think about as being American would never have, um, would never have happened at all. If it weren't for the English civil war, like the Puritans wouldn't have, um, set up in new England as strongly as they did.

This is a special bonus episode of Beyond the Big Screen featuring Sarah Tanksalvala of the Rejects and Revolutionaries podcast. You can get more great Bonus Features like this by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/beyondthebigscreen!You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Title: Gettysburg in Literature, Film and History: Pickett’s Charge and EpilogueDescription: Today Sean, James and I continue our discussion of the real events and background of the Battle of Gettysburg as portrayed through the 1993 film Gettysburg. One last cavalry charge just might be the answer to break the gridlock of this battle. We will also discuss the aftermath of Gettysburg and its place in the Civil War.Learn More About our Guests:James Early and Sean McIverKey Battles of American History PodcastKeybattlesofamericanhistory.comYou can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By impawards, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10571243Begin Transcript:, [00:00:00] this is beyond the big screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra. Welcome back to beyond the big screen. We have another installment of Hollywood hates history today. This is the fourth and final part of our four-part conversation on just the wonderful and historically accurate. But also highly entertaining, 1993, classic Gettysburg.We're joined as we have been in the past three episodes by two civil war, fanatics and podcast, or Sean MacGyver of the common take it, Texas history podcast and professor James early, a frequent contributor to beyond the big screen, but also the history of the papacy podcast and Scott ranks history unplugged podcast.Today, we will wrap up the battle, which [00:01:00] will include. Dissection of how the movie lines up with the main source material for the movie in the 1974 historical fiction, novel and Pulitzer prize winner, the killer angels by Michael Shaara. We have a ton to talk about this episode to you think we talked a ton about the other parts of the book and movie will have even more.If you have a historical movie, you either love or hate. Let me know. And maybe we can work together to create another episode of Hollywood hates history. I have a ton of ideas, but I'd love to hear yours. Thank you again for listening and I will see you next time beyond the big screen.all right, welcome back everybody. Now we've, we've discussed the prelude to the battle day to day one day two. And now we're finally at the ultimate [00:02:00] day of the battle day three Friday, July 3rd, 1863. James, why don't you set us up with day three. All right. Well, the overall, uh, description of what happened on this day is actually fairly simple to state.Generally, even though the Confederates had been driven back on day two, he felt they'd come so close. He felt, oh, if we just hit them one more time. Uh, as we've already seen, long street did not want to do a nother head-on assault against veteran, federal troops who were dug in on high ground. But Lee, just in, I've heard, it said his blood was up, his fighting spirit was up.He really felt just one more push and they will break. He felt like the center was especially weak. So he ordered once again, a general. To attack Culp's hill, which again, using my analogy of a clock that's about one o'clock and the [00:03:00] union line swings around from two or one all the way around to six.O'clock going counterclockwise, but it's really more like a fish hook or an ear. But anyway, so general Yule attacks about. Uh, in the morning and it, it even takes part of Culp's hill, but the Federalist drive them back and around 11 o'clock that is over with then Lee decides he wants to hit the center.He feels like because the center has the center, didn't get hit very hard on day two, but they, the center. Or I should say Mead, the overall union commander had to strip the center and send troops to the right and to the left to support them because they were under assault. He felt like the center would be spread really thin.Now the center is on cemetery Ridge. So on my clock analogy go from 12 o'clock down to about five or so that is the union center. But again, they're on a Ridge [00:04:00] and the. Confederate troops are off to the west a little bit about a mile to the left, and they're going to have to March across almost a sloping ground wide open ground.No. Uh, just fields of grass going uphill and over almost about a mile long March. I've heard anything from a quarter of a mile to a mile. So something but along March, but Lee thinks they can do it. And he orders long street to lead it. Now, long street doesn't want to lead it. He realizes that it's going to be a complete disaster and he asks actually, Uh, Lee would put AP hill in charge of it, but Lisa's know you're my best core commander.I want you to lead it. So, uh, as we've mentioned before, long street had three divisions. One led by general hood, one led by general McCloskey and the third led by picket hood. And my claws were really banged up and really hurting from day two. So they're going to stay out of this one long [00:05:00] streets. Only division that's going to attack is going to.Pick it division, which was fresh. They had not so far participated in the battle, but that's not enough. And Lee realizes that. So he strips away a couple of Hills divisions, one led by Johnson pedigree and one led by, uh, Isaac Trimble. And so those three divisions are going to do what is now called pickets charged.They're going to March across. As I mentioned about a mile long open area, gradually uphill to attack the federals on cemetery Ridge. And before that there's going to be a candidate, but we'll get to that in a minute. Um, so there's going to be a candidate and then they're going to March up there and push the Federalist back, take the high ground and, and maybe persuade, pursue the federals all the way down to Washington, perhaps.So that is the plan. We will see how that works out when we actually talk about the movie. And [00:06:00] so Chamberlain is, um, oh, I'm sorry. Did you wanna introduce it, Steve? No, you go ahead and yeah. Let's um, yeah, let's hear where Chamberlain is because he's kind of in an interesting spot. And yet again. Yeah. So his, his men have just been fighting a difficult battle the previous day.And so, uh, he gets orders to go reprint report to the, save a spot in the, in the union lines, right in the center. Yeah. Because there's not any kind of thing happened there. Um, and so he goes there. Um, so the interesting things about the movie, um, tremble was the, the general earlier who had, was Trimble part of Hills division core, or was he part of UL's core?Actually, I believe he was part of UL's I missed. Okay. So he takes her regimen from. Hill and you're in a regiment from you. You'll okay. Yeah. Uh, he's the one who complained about all earlier, um, pedigree is played by, uh, if you've ever seen one [00:07:00] of the heels only James Bond in one movie, but George Lazenby.So you have a former James Bond playing a Confederate general. Um, I didn't notice that until I watched it. So a long street has self doubt. He doubts, he thinks this attack's going to fail. And he tells me that, and Lee says, you need to do what you do your duty. And he doesn't think meat has that many men in the center, which is wrong.Uh, and then long street asks if another commander can lead the attack. And did he say no? Or did he just not. Uh, no, uh, I think in the book he just doesn't respond. He's embarrassed by the, by the request. And so he just ignored him. I don't recall. It's been a little while. Yeah. So, uh, George Pickett comes up with his division and long street tells him he's going to lead the attack and pick it's excited.He says, we're going to do it. We're going to, we're going to take, we're going to take. We're going to charge and we're going to take it. And they cheer for long for Lee as he rides by and the cheer for long [00:08:00] street and then long street orders, uh, that his, our chiller commander, Colonel Alexander, uh, he's a young guy.So Alexander, uh, became a Colonel, uh, after the Fredericksburg battle earlier, uh, in December, uh, because he had, uh, held off, uh, basically a whole union division with just his battery of horse out to artillery on the Confederate. Uh, and prevented the main Confederate line, which was, uh, behind the Stonewall from being flanked.Uh, and basically union just had to March up and get killed. Like the Confederates are about to do here in Gettysburg. Uh, so Alexander was the, was long streets, uh, artillery, commander, uh, and he tells them, I need you to clear out the federal artillery. Uh, and Alexander says, they're going to do it, but they're short on ammunition.

Title: Gettysburg in Literature, Film and History: Devil’s Den and Longstreet’s BeardDescription: Today Sean, James and I continue our discussion of the real events and background of the Battle of Gettysburg as portrayed through the 1993 film Gettysburg. The forces of North and South have deployed. Attacks have commenced but the outcome still is in doubt. 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Welcome back to beyond the big screen. We have another installment of Hollywood hates history today. This is the third part of a four-part conversation on the incredible and really classic movie. The 1993 Gettysburg, we are joined by two civil war, Fitzy Denatos and podcasters Sean MacGyver of the common take it, Texas history podcast and professor James early, a contributor to not only be on the big screen, but also the history of the papacy podcast and Scott ranks history unplugged podcast.Today, we will continue to progress through the battle. We will discuss the major source of the movie, the 1974 historical [00:01:00] fiction novel the killer angels by Michael Shara. And we will also talk about the second day of the battle. We have a ton to talk about today, so let's get right to it. Of course, if you have a historical movie, you either love or hate, let me know, and maybe we can work together to create a new episode of Hollywood hates history.I'm beyond the big screen. If you'd like to participate, send me an email to my email, address steve@atozhistorypage.com. I'd love to hear from you. Thanks again for listening and I will see you next time beyond the big screen.Now we're on today to have the battle. If you want to hear about what happened in the prelude to the battle or day one, you can go back and we have episodes on all those, but I'm, we're joined again by professor James early, of [00:02:00] course, and Sean, Sean MacGyver of the common ticket podcast. And we're going to dive right into day two.James, why don't you give us a little setup of what was going on in day two and what we can look forward to? Sure. Just to review in case, uh, it's been a while since somebody listened to the previous part or maybe they haven't, but if you haven't, you should stop it right now and go back and listen to it.Okay. All right. Are you back? Okay, good. So, um, what happened was the union army of the Potomac and the Confederate army of Northern Virginia met, uh, are parts of the army. To the west of the town of Gettysburg, north and west in an almost accidental meeting. And what happened was the union troops. There were heavily outnumbered, but they did a good job under the leadership of general, John Buford and general John Reynolds of delaying the Confederate advance and the Confederates [00:03:00] move the union or pushed them back through the town of Gettysburg.And onto some high ground, south and Southeast of town. And there, the first days fighting ended, there was a little bit more Confederate probing and attempts to attack, but it was getting dark and the Confederates were not able to push the union troops off of the high ground. The union overnight, gradually filled in more units, came up to the front and they settled into a position that shaped kind of like a fish hook, but I'm going to actually change the analogy here.I'm going to try to make it as simple as possible. So I'm going to create a mental map here. What happened? Imagine a clock. Okay. A clock. And this is oversimplifying because the union position was not a perfect circle, but, but work with me, people. Okay. I'm trying to make it easy on you. So, um, imagine the, the far right of the union army being at about two o'clock on the two, and then it stretches around.At [00:04:00] two o'clock at one o'clock you have, sorry, one o'clock you have a Culp's hill and then at 12 o'clock you have cemetery hill and then going around the other side, down, down the left side, oops, just hit my microphone down the left side. You had a Ridge, some high ground that kind of was a little up and down, but mostly high ground called cemetery Ridge.And then it continued down to a couple of large Hills. One which today is called little round top. And then the further south one is called big round top. That would be six o'clock. So there you go. That's roughly the union position and overnight the union troops were digging in and fortifying. What happened on day two?So, James, yeah, let me interrupt. So I think, I think that's a really good description. I think another way to look at it would be kind of, would be a reverse question, mark. And so you've got starting at cups hill and looping up cemetery hill and then kind of back down and then straight down for cemetery Ridge and, and [00:05:00] it culminates at the end, that little round top, and then there's a small gap.And then the period at the bottom of the question, mark would be big round top. Yeah. That's good. I had also thought of like, imagine if you're staring at somebody right ear. So it's an odd shape, but it's a, it's a great defensive shape is that it's a great defensive shape because the union troops are going to be able to take advantage of what's called interior lines.That means the union right. Can get to the troops on the union, right. Can get to the union left or the center very quickly, relatively quickly. Whereas the Confederate troops are wrapped around that in kind of a, I don't know, how would you describe that? Like, almost like the letter C. And so for the Confederate troops to get, say from their left to their right, would take much longer than for the union troops.Right. And then see there's difficulty in movement from the Confederate side. And the other thing to remember is that the union army is still marching in, and there's other, there's three [00:06:00] cores there at this point, there's still two more cores coming in and they're coming straight into this pocket that they've this defensive pocket that they formed.So their reinforcements are on the way. Whereas the only real reinforcements that Confederates are going to get is if their cavalry can somehow manage to make their way back. Yeah. And they've got one division pickets division, which is still coming up from the west and they're not going to participate in day two, but they will definitely participate in day three.Won't they? Go ahead, Steven. And what kind of geographic information would the each side had? Did they have maps of any accuracy, a topographical maps? Well, that's an important part in the second and the second book and let me start, that's an important part of the whole battle. Is that? Yeah. So the thing is, is that you depended on your, you dependent on either your locals or your cavalry to tell you about the area that you were in.So the advantage of union [00:07:00] advantage union they're in they're in Pennsylvania. So not only do they have the locals, they are supporting them and probably being, you know, they are, they do talk about that. The locals are, you know, they're buying food. The Confederates are buying food from the locals. They're staying at their homes, but they probably are reticent about helping the Confederates, whereas the they're going to help the union.The other thing is that you've got Pennsylvania militia and regular troops in this army. So you may have somebody from their home right in that has a they've lived in that area. So they know it. But the most important thing is when you're in enemy territory, your cavalry is critical to telling you what the field is like, what your ground is.They're critical to telling you these Hills can be walked over or written over or climbed easily or difficult. There are passes here. You can. There's a, there's a field. There's the visibility from this heel hill over this field. There's a Ridge here that you can travel behind and you can't be [00:08:00] seen in the next Ridge over.