re: The American Revolution-Ken Burns

You wrote that the "Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Confederacy ... would therefore have been unknown to the Framers of the Constitution."

I asked AI if the US founding fathers knew about the Iroquois Confederacy. It said they did, and "Historians have argued" that it "influenced" the framers' ideas about creating a federal union of states.

You then apparently asked AI if "the Framers of the U.S. Constitution were directly inspired by the Iroquois Confederacy (or its Great Law of Peace) when drafting the document." It said probably not. It did not say that it was unknown to the founders.

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I've been enjoying this one a lot. I do agree with the poster above in that I wish they went into a little more detail of the actual Declaration of Independence. It seemed like that was glossed over in about ten minutes.

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I was thinking the same thing. I am really enjoying this, and do enjoy all of the battle information. I am learning, or in some cases re-learning so much. However, I do wish I knew more about what was going on or went on during the Continental Congress and other meetings outside of the war itself. They do touch on here and there about Franklin in France. I thought there would be more John Adams. That said, I think this is a very good documentary and I am looking forward to the final episode tonight.

Hell, the tea on tax was a bargain for the colonists. Almost put John Hancock out of business

What I found interesting last night was the operations conducted in 1779 in Western New York. Washington opened up a can of whoop arse in the western regions with Sullivan and George Roger's Clark. It was a terror campaign essentially. Sullivan was ordered to lay waste out there. Burn the fields, destroy the food supply, etc. It really was total war out there in the Finger Lakes region west towards the Niagara Region.

Sullivan did not discriminate everyone out there was a target more or less. Lots of freebooters lived in that region and had intermarried with the Indians. They were of mixed loyalties or no real loyalties. It's a campaign that does not get talked about a lot in the history books....if there is mention of the war in the West, it usually consists of Clark's exploits at Kaskasia and Vincennes further west.

George Rogers Clark did not like Indians....at all.....spoke like they did

You’re pathetic. It’s a well-researched and produced documentary. It covers all aspects of the war as much as possible.

All of Burns’s work has been historically accurate.

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He described the average tax burden on someone living in England and an American colonist. The tax on the colonist was a tiny percentage of what the England resident would pay. The stamp taxes and such that got the colonists furious were not that burdensome; it was more the principle of their imposition at all.

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Sounds like nothing has changed

He just couldn't help himself...

Made an obvious attack on Trump and then doubled down by listing the SECOND amendment further down when he was listing him. I guess I'd be a bit irritated too if my meal ticket (CPB) just got whacked. The problem is that many of us supported him through purchasing his releases of books, soundtracks, and videos. I just requested Amazon to cancel delivery of the book tomorrow. I'll get it through other means. frick KEN BURNS!

ETA: This seems to have been the coming out series for Iris De Rode. Easy on the eyes and I can't wait to read her book on the French & American alliance. So much meat was left on the bone when you factor in King Louis losing his head, Napoleon, and Europe's interference with the USA in the first two decades of the 19th century. Burns is pivoting to outright liberal bootlicking over the next three years. I doubt we'll see him covering any other American wars.

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Burns’ historian, whose name I didn’t catch

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I believe Geoffrey Ward is the writer since he's been credited as the writer of the series and the "companion book". I watched the behind the scenes preview a few weeks ago and it appeared to be written over the past 7-8 years with a few years of post-production. His experts screened the rough cut to "verify authenticity". De Rode's presence is interesting as she hadn't gotten her PhD until 5 years ago. The last 2 nights she had almost as much time as everyone else. So hardly a last minute insertion nor someone who was there from the start like a Stacy Schiff.

Robert Morris is a name i haven't heard in decades (outside of his namesake school's basketball team). I came into the series with an unbiased mindset. Maybe even pro-Burns because of his Baseball and WWII series. I have a feeling that I will notice a ton of biased crap when I watch it a second time.

Looking back he really went heavy on the Indian angle. In many of those cases it was a 18th century FAFO situation. He hammered the pay (maybe they believed in the cause more than money???) and GW/TJ slave ownership. I think you could make a case for this being the first time it was given to the audience with a British prospective. Hell even the French caught strays.

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Made an obvious attack on Trump and then doubled down by listing the SECOND amendment further down when he was listing.

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It was blatantly comically pathetic.

Still enjoyed the series. Never realized the savage brutality of the war.

Without Washington, shudder to think.

To comments on short shifting Declaration of Independence - John Adams series (if I recall) really delved into this. Perhaps Burns bypassed in deference to it already being done (very well also).

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and then doubled down by listing the SECOND amendment further down when he was listing him.

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Sorry I’m confused. Are you saying he was listing the amendments in the Bill of Rights and didn’t name the Second Amendment second?