America: The Story of Us - Premieres Sunday April 25

[shooter32]

for a 6-episode arc at 2 hours each, they could delve a little more deeply into some of the subjects.

+1

[Pathfinder]

My take so far as well.....for a 6-episode arc at 2 hours each, they could delve a little more deeply into some of the subjects.

I think they ended up doing that with the Battle of Saratoga, which was instrumental in getting French supports, and the sniper killing of Farser. The rest of it was glossy and weak.

[2HOW]

watched both parts, very good representation of history for a TV show. I kept relating to todays troubles , only the red coats are in the white house.

[twyacht]

BHO gave the opening intro,....set the tone for the rest of the show....

Wasn't bad,...at least it will be shown in over 600 schools nationwide, seems a lack of decent history lessons are currently the norm, at grade level.

[PegLeg45]

One thing it has going for it is if school kids see it, maybe the action will pique their curiosity enough to want to learn more.

[Sponsor]

[jaybet]

One of the lightest whiffs across american history I've ever seen... like a Reader's Digest version of a Cliff notes book. Plus it looked a lot more like an ad for BHO and Bank of America than anything else.

[Big Frank]

I watched Family Guy and American Dad instead. Probably will next week too. I guess I should get a DVR and record stuff that I'll miss.

[Dakotaranger]

It really seams like they were just trying to wet a person's taste to look farther into history...if that happens it's not necessarily a bad thing, but I have seen much better programs on the History Channel

[Pathfinder]

Much better indeed, DR.

I did watch part 2 - yes, I am that much of a history junkie!  

Light, glossy treatment again, only this time rife with celebrities - Martha Stewart, Tom Brokow, Michael Douglas, some bearded wonk who is one of the founders of Wikipedia (WTF?). One of the better lines was Brian Williams (I think) saying in references to the idea of Manifest Destiny - The owner's manual says this is all ours - keep going west!" Good line.

At the risk of repeating myself, WTF do I care what these talking heads - who make their living out of reading what other people have written for them to say - think? Most of them can't, so again, what do I care?

I was listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast the other day, and he quoted someone as saying "History is philosophy in action". Interesting perspective, not sure what to do with that tho.

[PegLeg45]

I did watch part 2 - yes, I am that much of a history junkie!  

At the risk of repeating myself, WTF do I care what these talking heads - who make their living out of reading what other people have written for them to say - think? Most of them can't, so again, what do I care?

I agree.....all the time these boobs spent blathering on with opinions could have been more wisely used for more history info and scenes.

But, I also still think it could benefit school kids, to the extent that a competent teacher backed it with positive lessons.