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  @christiehopkins12 сағат бұрын

  Geniuses are few and far between. Mr. Foote was the genius of my generation.

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  @wa70196 күн бұрын

  It's nice to hear someone in so few words encapsulate this complex matter. I think people like to boil things to the simplest thing, but wars are usually not fought over simple things, but rather complex matters.

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  @user-cf1ir8rj2u6 күн бұрын

  I grew up in the South amid the myth and reality of the Civil War and that Flag.The political arguments of that war are not for here. That flag's real purpose was as a combat flag that could best be seen amongst the "black powder fog" of the 19th century battlefield,serving also as a rallying point for men during the confusion of a given engagement. In the end, it was and remains a "soldier's flag" for all those engaged in battle.That it later became a symbol of independence was understandable,yet it's elevation to defiance,hatred and bigotry has become an insult to the men who fought, not so much for a cause,as much as for each other.

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  @jonathandiaz60466 күн бұрын

  Cars Gary numan. Great 😅

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  @charliesmith407210 күн бұрын

  He completely misses the point. Too few Southerners are willing to admit that the Civil War was an act of treason in defense of a despicable institution.

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  @Bruno-ho5jl11 күн бұрын

  Foote was a great historian and I have the utmost respect for him despite his bias for the Confederacy however the flag he is talking about is not the Confederate flag but the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.

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  @lawrencejohnson325911 күн бұрын

  Excerpt from Alexander Steven's Cornerstone Speech. "...Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law. Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system. The architect, in the construction of buildings, lays the foundation with the proper material-the granite; then comes the brick or the marble. The substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it, and by experience we know that it is best, not only for the superior, but for the inferior race, that it should be so. It is, indeed, in conformity with the ordinance of the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of His ordinances, or to question them. For His own purposes, He has made one race to differ from another, as He has made "one star to differ from another star in glory." The great objects of humanity are best attained when there is conformity to His laws and decrees, in the formation of governments as well as in all things else. Our confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws. This stone which was rejected by the first builders "is become the chief of the corner" the real "corner-stone" in our new edifice..." Why would any black person or ethical and moral white person defend or fight for this?

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  @raysearch-iu3fr14 күн бұрын

  "We should have freed the slaves first, THEN fired on Fort Sumter!" - Lieutenant General James Longstreet

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  @darrengilbert743818 күн бұрын

  The Confederate flag represents the South. Not slavery or racism. Racist have hijacked the flag. But to me, growing up in the south, it represents good people from the area. Back then most, we were hard-working farmers who believed in God and loved the country and their fellow man.

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  @Dracsmolar19 күн бұрын

  History is more complicated than what most people think, believe and are definitely taught.

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  @JimmySailor19 күн бұрын

  Foote was a eminent scholar but I don’t agree with his logic. Even in his own words: ‘no soldiers on either side fought for slavery’ followed by ‘except some radicals’. Do the radicals include the tens of thousands of black men who fought for freedom? “The second American revolution” argument is put forward as well. Except the American revolution was waged against a colonial power after it had refused to grant democratic rights. The South succeeded AFTER losing an election and subsequent to winning decades of electoral victories. The South was a part of the democratic institutions of the country, they only left when those democratic institutions started not going in their favor. That’s sour grapes. The Southern Way of life was Slavery, look to bloody Kansas for evidence of that or the Missouri compromise. Look to the Declaration of Independence or the 3/5ths compromise, even before the Nation was born the South refused to join if they couldn’t keep their slaves. As to the “because your down here” argument, how does that square with the fact that the South fired first. That they only succeeded when Lincoln came into office. It wasn’t Union troops they feared but an abolitionist in the White House. White men, rich and poor, took up arms in the South to preserve the status quo: Slavery. That the Poor didn’t own many slaves didn’t mean they wanted them freed. They saw what kind of poverty the Slave lived in and didn’t welcome sharing in their lot. The Civil War occurred as a conflict between Jeffersonian agrarianism and the modern world was inevitable. You can’t expext the gentlemen farmer who tills his land through slave labor to sit ideal while industrialization raises the masses out of poverty.

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  @rooseveltbarfield316722 күн бұрын

  That's a bs answer foote. The secession documents of each confederate state specifically stated slavery as the main reason for secession

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  @bearclaw00724 күн бұрын

  I'm not an anti-Confederate, but the Confederate States of America was fueled by the economic greed of a few plutocrats. Why any self-identified Christian still promotes that evil government says a lot about their reading of the scriptures.

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  @phyllisfager668924 күн бұрын

  Always thought of it as states rights

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  @keogh6525 күн бұрын

  What a great mind you are Mr.Foote! I totally admire you! ❤

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  @robertlanders572326 күн бұрын

  How can a flag that represents secession be considered to be “good”. That flag is pure EVIL …. No other way to view it. Hundreds of thousands of defenders of the Union lost their lives because of that flag. Anybody who thinks there is ANYTHING good about that flag, is a piece of dog sh*t.

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  @kencusick631129 күн бұрын

  What the original intent, re: the confederate battle flag, was became irrelevant when during reconstruction the South’s resistance to reconstruction focused on denying blacks their rights. When that flag was used to as a symbol of oppression to denigrate people based solely on the color of their skin, it became something other than its original intent. To deny that that it is what it became and to pretend the period between the end if the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement never happened, is as cruel as the lost cause myth that help create Jim Crow and another 100 years of black oppression.

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  @timothyjarvis420829 күн бұрын

  How would you see that flag ig you were black,?

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  @johnrogers142329 күн бұрын

  Even if one accepts that most soldiers weren't concerned about slavery, the 200,000 black soldiers and sailors probably were as well as the few million slaves in the south plus the abolitionists plus members of the underground railway etc etc.

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  @mackenshaw8169Ай бұрын

  So sad that this compromise has now been jettisoned.

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  @jonnie10624 күн бұрын

  Ersatz compromises and synthetic agreements have a very short half-life indeed. Really now, the north must "openly and freely admit the south fought bravely for a cause it believed in". That statement could be used to justify every single conflict in the worlds' written history, you must know that not all wars are justifiable.

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  @1rjbrjbАй бұрын

  I like him. I like his voice. His books were erudite and transcendently turgid. But he is speaking nonsense here. The Confederate flag was somehow defiled because it was displayef against civil rights? The Confederate flag was a symbol of SLAVERY. He talks about the KKK - his "authentic genius" Bedford Forrest ran it, founded it. Look, I appreciate the robust contribution of white southerners to our military. I respect the traditions and the culture. But at the end of the day, y'all (as it were) favored enslaving human beings, and you opposed any effort to reduce the momentum of the GROWTH of slavery. It wasn't even a matter of saying: "OK, let us keep THESE slaves and it will be enough". No. You said: ypu can't restrict slavery in the territories. You can't restrict slavery by popular sovereignty. And - hey - we're looking at other ethnic groups to enslave. Mexico is lookin good. It's not as if the Confederate Flag was a symbol of small town life and Andy & Opie fishin. I don’t really blame black people for wanting to take it out of the public square and maybe rename a few military bases in the process. Sorry, Shelby. Burns made you the richest septugenarian since Colonel Saunders, I hope you enjoyed it but you were wrong here, sir.

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  @terrydanksАй бұрын

  As much as I admire, am awed by really, the encyclopaedic work that Foote produced, I found it a tough read. IMHO, the most "user friendly" account of The Civil War remains all of Bruce Catton's books. Even their titles are poetic . . . The Coming Fury Terrible Swift Sword Never Call Retreat Mr. Lincoln's Army Glory Road A Stillness at Appomattox Loved all of those books. Foote's, OTOH, were a tad dry in comparison.

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  @alanhoffman-mp2esАй бұрын

  The English BROUGHT Slavery to the US... You were just as guilty 😮😮😮

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  @adamnave7305Ай бұрын

  I finally finished reading his three volume narrative of the Civil War earlier this year. My regret is that I didn’t read it before. It was an amazing analysis that afforded an even handed perspective for both sides. He presented facts and perspectives that are rarely seen. He was a giant.

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  @tomcat7843Ай бұрын

  The Stars and Bars was never the flag of the Confederacy. The Bonnie Blue was.

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  @samspade2131Ай бұрын

  SF was a great story teller. Burn’s film benefited enormously with his inclusion. But, he’s full of S on this topic.

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  @bobmarlowe3390Ай бұрын

  A lot of Klansmen carried the US flag as well. Look at the pictures of the Klan marches in Washington, DC in the 1920s.

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  @davidb2206Ай бұрын

  Just saw in another video today a clip of President Eisenhower telling the press that he had a picture of General Lee up on the wall in his office at the White House.

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  @joshmay817Ай бұрын

  well. He knows a lot more about it than I do, but if the reason they seceded was because an amendment was coming that would outlaw "chattel slavery" and he sees slaves as legitimate "private property" I guess he's kind of wrong.

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  @LesterMooreАй бұрын

  Sorry to say that Mr. Foote may as well provide the true explanation of the flag to a palmetto tree. No leftist and uneducated person will listen and understand. They are just plain set in their ways. As a response to House Representative Rashida Tlaib posting her bloody flag in our American Capitol (after she took the oath to adhere to American law, protect the Constitution and forsake allegiance to any foreign country -she forgot or just chooses to ignore the oath) is for a House Representative place the Stars and Bars outside their office to see what Pelosi and the squad then say. Both flags represent countries that fought against America, the Palistinians still do, so what's the difference?

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  @williamhosp701Ай бұрын

  I grew up in the South and I don't reckon y'all hear English spoken like that over yonder but this is same sort of BS I heard growing up. The Civil War was treason to protect slavery and Lincoln didn't propose emancipation until halfway through his term!

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  @Bernard-fo2qoАй бұрын

  Poor Shelby can't admit the war WAS about free versus slave states. Read the official declarations of secession by the slave states. They're all about slavery.

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  @matthewgagnon9426Ай бұрын

  Shelby's a colossal moron if he thinks people didn't fight for slavery, the southern states all said they seceded because of slavery. It's in the articles of secession. It's in the Confederate constitution.

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  @analyzeit6882Ай бұрын

  I have been out of high school for almost six decades. I was very interested in the civil war. Read journals from soldiers. Those journals told me a different story as Mr. Foote explains. I learned, all those years ago, and I can still hear my history teacher. Most people had not even seen a slave. An army couldn't be raised to fight for or against slavery. Not his exact words, but I can recall the lesson.

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  @user-so6fh1bu9fАй бұрын

  Read the Confederate Constitution. It states plainly that they were secesseding because of their right to hold slaves was being threatened. Article I Section 9(4) and Article IV Section 2(1) specifically apply to slavery.

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  @FrankUnknownАй бұрын

  See, it's not about racism, wealthy Southerners were just trying to protect their... uh... "private property." This is just more of the same "Lost Cause" bullshit I've been hearing all my life.

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  @joeviking61Ай бұрын

  After the Star Spangled Banner, Dixie is my 2nd National Anthem. I will fly the Stars and Bars wherever I feel

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  @michaellazzeri2069Ай бұрын

  With due respect to Mr Foote, RIP : 1at, that flag may say " a lot of god things " to you sir, but to anyone else who knows both how our civil war came to be, & what it means when while pe4ople carry that flag today ------it is understood to be a symbol of white rage against our diverse nation today, especially for southern whites fearful of " being replaced " . Back then, it was THE symbol, of 13 states rebelling against our nation, because they wanted a way of life that included the enslavement of men, women, & children for economic gain. That Mr Foote, WAS why states attempted to secede, & why Lincoln would not allow it. Our union-------" one nation under God, indivisible ", did not allow any state to just leave because the state government decided it could, for whatever reason. No sir ! No. A way of life that exploited people in such horrific ways ?? NO sir ! Slavery was wrong-------& leaving our United States was both wrong, & could not be allowed. Period., Mr Foote. ---------------MJL, 77 y/o

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  @davidb2206Ай бұрын

  It was a voluntary compact. States had every right to secede. Gorbachev handled it right. Lincoln botched it because he was a war-monger and tyrant. That "one nation, indivisible" pledge did not exist in 1861.

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  @junipermanАй бұрын

  Slavery is evil anyone that try’s to justify it is evil

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  @robertroyal6478Ай бұрын

  Do you specifically know of anyone today who does not believe slavery is morally wrong?

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  @junipermanАй бұрын

  @@robertroyal6478 no I don’t …because I wouldn’t know anyone like that

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  @robertroyal6478Ай бұрын

  @@juniperman Who are these people you refer to who try to "justify" slavery?

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  @junipermanАй бұрын

  @@robertroyal6478 according to anti- slavery international almost 50.000.000 people including 22. Million children live under slavery right now. Do a little research dude before you open your mouth.

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  @robertroyal6478Ай бұрын

  @@juniperman The purpose of my questions was to "do a little research." Thank you for your answers. I am better informed now.

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  @arthurbachmann4221Ай бұрын

  The CSA States Rights traitors sought to divide the Union in pursuit of money. The CSA were such traitors they sought England as an ally.

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  @randyhorne2386Ай бұрын

  The flag and its effort was about keeping slavery and yes northerners we’re doing the same

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  @paulstanitz2723Ай бұрын

  I hear what your saying, Shelby, but some in the South are still fighting the war in a figurative sense.

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  @WhiskeySam1Ай бұрын

  Growing up in the Deep South, I’ve tried to explain the depth of meaning the flag has for Southerners and how completely divorced it is in their minds from the issue of slavery. I’ve known many black southerners who flew it as well, or had it on their bumper. Unfortunately a symbol of regional identity and culture was co-opted as a symbol of racial segregation and animosity. And you’re never going to convince racist ignoramuses to stop flying it. So decent people probably shouldn’t.

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  @macarthur71Ай бұрын

  “Blacks don’t want to be reminded of that history”. Gee, I wonder why? If I were black, I’d be pretty raw about walking past statues in my town built for men that fought to have my ancestors enslvaved and owned as property. It seems to me that one group didn’t get much say in “The Great Compromise”.

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  @macarthur71Ай бұрын

  So, I would never pretend to have the extensive knowledge that Mr. Foote has about the Civil War, but I have read a good deal and I think there's two items I would take some issue with how he couched his comments. First, while I'm sure he's right that the flag was never 'intended' to to symbolize what it does today, the fact of the matter is that it does symbolize hatred and racism. I mean, there was a time when the swastika symbolized prosperity and good fortune. Unfortunately, we now know what it came to symbolize and it is forever linked. I think the same can be said about the confederate flag. It's a symbol of hate and division and should be a relic of history. Second, he makes the comment that the soldiers on either side didn't 'give a damn' about slavery. This is highly debatable. Historian James McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom) that after about 1861, there is 'major consensus' developing that slavery is tearing the union apart and had to be destroyed. He is correct that this issue is complex and nuanced, but it does seem like he is trying to paint a 'softer' picture of the south. If you are ever in doubt about why the civil war was fought, just go read each southern state's articles of succession.

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  @THE-HammerManАй бұрын

  About racism, I'll always remember Morgan Freeman's reply when Dan Rather asked how to stop racism: "STOP TALKING ABOUT IT".

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  @chesterhigh5886Ай бұрын

  This man was a national treasure!!! This is coming from a Northern who is a descendent of former slaves.

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  @michaelbayer5094Ай бұрын

  Sadly, Mr. Foote's Great Compromise is missing some vital elements: the fact that it was wrong to rebel in the first place, that rebellion was and is treason, that the Rebels, from Lee to the lowly soldier were traitors, and that the chief reason for secession, to which all their other reasons relate, is the preservation of slavery. Also, because of the this "Great Compromise" and the South never admitting its errors, the white supremacist movement has been reborn and the Lost Cause Myth has melded into the modern culture of grievance that expresses itself in Trump and MAGA.

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  @derek5499Ай бұрын

  He is a very smart man and well spoken

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  @markalbert9011Ай бұрын

  Mr. Foote was a charming and lovely man but utterly wrong. "You have to transport yourself to the time of secession"....Well Mr. Foote , if you do so, what you see is all the various states articles of secession mentioning slavery. The Confederate battle flag represents people who left the union because they feared abolition. Whatever other positive and or noble actions are forever obscured by the over riding fact that they those who fought under that flag wanted the right to OWN OTHER HUMANS! You can say many positive things about the NAZI flag too if you are willing to ignore the Holocaust.

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  @ron88303Ай бұрын

  One can say the same thing about the Japanese flag, or Spanish flag, or Union Jack, or US flag ...

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  @markalbert9011Ай бұрын

  @@ron88303 REALLY? None of those flags are used as symbols and rallying points of hatred of minorities. The same cannot be said of the Confederate Battle flag which often flies right next to the NAZI in KKK rallies and parades. Both flags were present in Charlottesville where a white supremacist murdered a counter protester. The murderer has a Confederate Battle Flag tattoo. So point of fact, ONLY those flags are used as rallying points of hate, you cannot legitimately say the same thing about the USA or Japanese, or UK flags. Those flags are not widely recognized around the world as protest flags of hate and murder. The NAZI and Confederate Battle flag are. I dare you to fly a Confederate Battle Flag in Africa or proudly show off a CBF tattoo. Your lifespan could probably be measured in hours, that's how universal a symbol of white supremacy it has become.