Appomattox Court House and Lincoln's Assassination

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[@ryanbob9846]

thanks for this one

[@Abdaddy]

sal your a hero why arent my teacher like this

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

John Wilkes Booth was a very famous stage performer at the theater where he assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He was sort of the Tom Cruise of his era.

[@eirpcalc]

Very good.

[@5thfirefly]

@XxIblinkIxX I know that but the goal of Khan Academy is to teach people around the world. And I quote: "The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere." So why bother with Lincoln?

[@1a1a1and]

@5thfirefly sorry getting a bit off topic there cause I don't consider those US events any less important then learning about the ancient gods of eygpt who were kind of building great monuments when europe were still savages. I don't think simply moving a bit further up the timeline to something a bit more "modern" say plato's time in greece 400bc, or bit later the Renaissance really makes any difference, you still should learn it all if you want to learn about history.

[@thatguy2521]

The secret service really dropped the ball on that one

[@coqui1582]

Hey I need the closed captions pleaseee

[@1a1a1and]

@5thfirefly I understand what you are getting at. You show a deep respect for some of the most influential thinkers of today's society. But i just generally think more people need to study more of EVERYTHING lol because not every thing can be learned from that time and place. Gota love the quote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana. I do agree with a lot of what you said, hard to argue with Plato. Khan will get there though :)

[@omfizzledrizzle03]

@tls4gatorbait Yes, but since Fort Sumter was an island, they consider the Battle of Bull Run to be the first "land" battle

[@5thfirefly]

@lupivdaman Well, okay... for now. But I will keep an eye on him! :)

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs Despite its huge and rich territory and low population figures, the US never stopped to expand and conquer until nothing else was left in North America worth conquering. The US left out the colonization only because the US didn’t have a sufficient population and advanced industry in the 19th century to acquire colonies of its own but this fact doesn’t change its nature or gives a moral edge over Europe, especially because this is just how the story of the US started.

[@downyourtube]

Find the answeres to Elizabeth Quesenberry to find Booth's Diary.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs In this case I agree with you.

[@shatann]

5:15 reminds me of Secret Service's debauchery in Cartagena Colombia. lol

[@jackteegarden6982]

hello is this account still active?

[@XxIblinkIxX]

@5thfirefly This isn't world history, it's American history.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs To your American Bias question you can find the answer among my old comments posted about 6 months ago. Khan claims his mission is to teach students around the world and I think usually he's very good but if he wants to teach history around the world he has to consider the non-american viewpoint as well. So far he failed to do that and that's my problem.

[@5thfirefly]

@5thfirefly First of all, if someone wants to understand a historical event or a society, it’s weird to talk about how much respect that particular society, social movement or ideology (in this particular case communism) deserves. Seeking an understanding and giving a moral judgement are two different things. It’s very likely that it’s impossible to understand something if you have a strong bias.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs At this point I think it’s worth asking why you think that if for example the Danes in Denmark don’t have a Pakistani prime minister they are necessarily more racist than the American society which in fact consists entirely of immigrants or the descendants of immigrants (apart from the few remaining natives, of course).

[@1a1a1and]

@5thfirefly Lincoln's assassination is of direct importance to anyone studying at a school in US doing American history. That's a lot kids this helps. Yes they state "world" in there proclamation to the world but how is the assassination not history and instead propaganda? ... I'm Australian, I usually only ever bitch about America, but history and learning you do not put in a box. Let them finish before you pass judgement.

[@gnome95]

60 mins

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs Don’t even get me started on slavery, racial and political discrimination in the US or the countless other wars since the War of Independence. France actually seems like a very peaceful country compared to the US, not to mention that France has a bit longer history than the US so it’s not even fair to compare the two. Moreover, I don’t recall any of those huge American efforts to help Africa which you would like to see from the Europeans.

[@1a1a1and]

@5thfirefly I just find it a bit hard to get past the fact that every video is done by khan and to still remember its a organization that even got a fair chunk of money from mr gates. There good ppl, they started this thing with great intentions so i give them some space for there biases. But europe are effected by what happens elsewhere. No american revolution, the french would have sold the land they had differently if the english still owned it. Cold war, could ended the world. Neil armstrong

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs Hey you're here! I will reply but first let me post all my answers. I wrote long answer... :D

[@davidnice1]

I forgot to mention though while the Confederacy was inferior in supplies , roadways and railroad lines. Many states that stretched out into the West the entire South, and even border states such as Virginia all fought for the Confederacy. That's why when people say the north they think about the Damn Yankees or whatever. You think of the tri-state area New York New Jersey Connecticut Boston and the New England area. No one thinks North and South Dakota or Washington State and even places like Michigan Wisconsin are considered the midwest. When they say up north they mean the upper little right corner. Which packs a huge punch in littoral votes. When you look at a presidential race you see the whole country as read but then see the Democrat won the popular vote. All those States not in the Northeast are not as popular as many small states in the Northeast.

[@1a1a1and]

@5thfirefly Because the US have had a major impact on the world today. And since Lincoln had a big impact on the US. This video comes under the "History" playlist and i don't see enough content to have a "American History" section yet. I would guess you are more annoyed at the current % of US vids vs the actual content of those US vids. And if thats the case please try to remember he has to start somewhere and being an american it seems logical to start there since khan's fam/friends use them.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs Honestly, I am not entirely sure in what way it is relevant what you’re writing from the perspective of my original argument. My point was that Khan’s history videos show a not particularly strong but clearly visible American bias, which can be seen both in the choice of topics and the content of the videos. You have however some strange ideas so I will try to react to those.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs It’s a problem everywhere in the West how to integrate the immigrants in a society and how to avoid pushing them on the fringes of society. Honestly, I don’t think that Europe is behind the US regarding this issue especially since the US is the only western country I know of which uses racial profiling and registers the race of those who enter the country. One would think that’s a weird habit form a country which “leads the way” in the struggle against racial discrimination.

[@5thfirefly]

I don't understand something. If these videos for everybody everywhere why do you start the history series with videos like this? E. g. Lincoln's assassination is an insignificant event in world history in my opinion. Back then the US was at the end of the world. It was a mostly agrarian country without any weight in the world. Lincoln is an American historical figure with local significance just like Martin L. King. I think there are plenty of other more important topics in history.

[@1a1a1and]

@5thfirefly But i can't agree on the other bits about "propaganda". Propaganda is aloud to contain false information, can you point to any lies? He states many times that this is what he personally has discovered through study and obviously since he is giving the lessons its his viewpoint. Its impossible to get past that, even the historical documents we use objectively were written by people of were subjective. Obv you don't go to an american for the vietnamese viewpoint on the war...

[@ronjohnson7238]

Just a point that President Davis never surrendered the Confederacy to the US govt. even though his armies did surrender.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs The immigration of Latin Americans however is a completely different case in the US because the government can’t efficiently filter those immigrants. Thus many poorly educated immigrants arrive in the US every year who live in slums and take the worst jobs possible. Now this picture is not that different from the situation of the poor African and Turkish immigrants in Europe.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs Finally the fact that the Soviet Union, the British Empire or Genghis Khan committed crimes in the past doesn’t justify the actions of the US today. So don’t point your finger at them. It’s your responsibility as a citizen what your government or the armed forces of your country does today.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs How can it be any better than European colonialism? At least, Europe had a reason for its expansion since Europe is the smallest but most densely populated continent in the world, and it’s also not particularly rich in natural resources. It needed more land and the wealth of other continents. The US even today, 400 years after the foundation of the first North American British colony has only 300 million citizens, while the EU has 500 million on a territory half as big as the US.

[@5thfirefly]

@5thfirefly The number of the victims of communism is also a strange argument in my opinion since the last time I checked killing people was the crime and not the efficient way of doing it.If regimes destroy human beings, they are equally bad in my opinion and it doesn’t matter how efficient they were or how many people they wanted to exterminate.

[@5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs The number of the 130 million people supposedly killed by communism is only relevant if you want to argue that this number makes communists worse than other mass murderers or what is more, if you want to make other mass murderers appear less wicked. However, that would be somewhat immoral of you. By the way, I am not sure how you have managed to come up with that number.

[@1a1a1and]

aloud... lots of bad bad spelling lol I need to study more!

[@Shewlee08BD]

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[@w451-qx3kx]

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