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December 24, 2020

Why Christmas Should Be ILLEGAL

Filed under: History, Humour, Religion, USA — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 23 Dec 2019

The Witchfinder General of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in New-England preaches against the heathenry of the Pagan Carnival known as Christmas, and exhorts Good Christians to Ban it by Law; together with, a Testimony against the Authors of that most vile and deplorable Pamphlet, r/christmas, and irrefutable Judgments upon them, drawing from the Word of God, and the Puritan Laws of this fair Commonwealth.

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December 18, 2020

When Movies Were Magic (3D glasses recommended)

Filed under: France, History, Media, Technology, USA — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 8 Sep 2020

A brief history of early motion picture technology and artistry, from the magic lantern to Georges Méliès. Presented in glorious 3-D!!!

To fully enjoy this video, you will need a pair of red/blue anaglyph 3-D glasses. They can be acquired cheaply at a number of online vendors, and you can even make them at home by coloring sheets of clear plastic with permanent markers: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own…

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~REFERENCES~

[1] William Godwin. Lives of the Necromancers (1834). Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/…

[2] Paul Clee. Before Hollywood: From Shadow Play to the Silver Screen (2005). Houghton Mifflin, Page 12-21

[3] Chris Bennett. “The Psychedelic Phantasmagoria Shows of the 18th Century” (2018). Cannabis Culture https://www.cannabisculture.com/conte…

[4] Clee, Page 39-47

[5] Clee, Page 84-85

[6] “Dissolving View Magic Lantern Slides.” Magic Lantern World https://magiclanternist.com/2016/09/2…

[7] “A Color Photograph Pioneer Comes to Light” (2018). The European Synchrotron https://www.esrf.eu/home/news/general…

[8] Clee, Page 83

[9] Clee, Page 85-95

[10] “Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photography of Motion” (2000). National Museum of American History https://americanhistory.si.edu/muybri…

[11] “Sallie Garner at a Gallop.” IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2221420/…

[12] Laurent Mannoni. “Etienne-Jules Marey: French Physiologist and Chronophotographer.” Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema https://www.victorian-cinema.net/marey

[13] Clee, Page 107-109

[14] Harald Sack. “The Kinetoscope and Edison’s Wrong Way to Invent the Cinema” (2020). SciHi Blog http://scihi.org/kinetoscope-edison/

[15] Clee, Page 127

[16] Clee, Page 139-141

[17] James Travers. “Georges Méliés Biography: Life and Films” (2017). FrenchFilms.org http://www.frenchfilms.org/biography/…

[18] Clee, Page 158-159

November 10, 2020

Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain on Clutch Little Round Top Win | Potomac-N.Virginia Postbattle

Filed under: History, Humour, Military, USA — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published 9 Nov 2020

Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s postbattle interview following the 20th Maine’s successful defense of Little Round Top at the extreme left of the Union line during the Battle of Gettysburg in the 1863 Civil War season.

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~SOURCES~

“Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s Report on the 20th Maine at Gettysburg” (2020). IronBrigader https://ironbrigader.com/2020/06/29/j…

William B. Styple. Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War (2005). Belle Grove Publishing, Page 222-227

October 29, 2020

The Curse of the Mad Butcher: A New Orleans Folktale

Filed under: History, USA — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 22 Oct 2019

Spooky season is upon us, and leading up to Halloween, I’ll be sharing with you “true” New Orleans folktales and ghost stories popular among our city’s ghost tour guides. The 700 block of Ursulines Avenue in the French Quarter would be completely unremarkable… if not for the three eerily similar murders that have been committed there over the last 120 years.

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October 25, 2020

The Crimes of Madame Delphine LaLaurie: The Truth Behind the Legends

Filed under: History, USA — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 16 Dec 2019

Madame Delphine LaLaurie, New Orleans’ most reviled serial killer, has become world famous thanks to American Horror Story and the wildly popular French Quarter ghost tour industry. The story of this deranged socialite who tortured, mutilated, and murdered her slaves has lost none of its horrifying bite, and the supposedly haunted mansion where her home once stood has become a major tourist attraction. Despite its popularity (or perhaps because of it), this story is steeped in legend and folklore. Most online sources about LaLaurie’s crimes are outdated, wrong, or both. In this video I attempt to separate the truth from the myth, and tell a purely historical account of the crimes of Delphine LaLaurie.

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October 24, 2020

The LaLaurie Mansion: A New Orleans Ghost Story

Filed under: History, USA — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 25 Mar 2019

Thought I’d try something different with this video. This is the story of famous serial killer Delphine LaLaurie and her allegedly haunted mansion.

Sorry for the background noises… such are the pitfalls of filming in the French Quarter.

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October 10, 2020

When Vikings Met Native Americans: The Voyage of Thorvald Erikson

Filed under: Americas, Cancon, History — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Atun-Shei Films
Published 9 Oct 2020

Happy Leif Erikson Day! After Leif’s discovery of unknown lands to the west of Greenland, his brother Thorvald set off on an expedition of his own. Thorvald’s voyage, as related in the medieval Icelandic text The Saga of the Greenlanders, marks the first time in recorded history that Europeans came face-to-face with Native Americans. In this video, I regale you with this tale of adventure, exploration, and cultural collision. And for some reason, I spend about a third of the video talking about a bowl, a coin, and some yarn made of goat hair.

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~REFERENCES~

[1] Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson. The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America (1965). Penguin Books, Page 59-61

[2] Sîan Grønlie. The Book of the Icelanders / The Story of the Conversion (2006). Viking Society for Northern Research, Page 4

[3] Ingeborg Marshall. “Beothuk Transportation” (1998). Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/a…

[4] Patricia Sutherland. Dorset-Norse Interactions in the Canadian Arctic (2000). Canadian Museum of Civilization, Page 2-9

September 30, 2020

New Orleans History 101

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Published 2 Apr 2019

A brief crash course in the history of the city, from the founding in 1718 to the 20th century.

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September 27, 2020

CHECKMATE, LINCOLNITES! Confederate DESTROYS Yankee with FACTS and LOGIC

Filed under: History, Humour, Military, USA — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 23 May 2019

Checkmate, Lincolnites! Debunking the three or four arguments Neo-Confederates always make when they talk about the Civil War.

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September 20, 2020

The Lost Cause Myth in the 21st Century

Filed under: History, Politics, USA — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 23 Feb 2019

A former Gettysburg tour guide talks about how the American Civil War is remembered today.

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September 14, 2020

That Time the Ladies of New Orleans Peed on Union Soldiers

Filed under: History, Humour, Military, USA — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 24 Sep 2019

In 1862, shortly after the capture of New Orleans by Union forces during the Civil War, General Benjamin “the Beast” Butler issued the infamous “woman order” because the wealthy ladies of the city wouldn’t stop dumping pee on his men.

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September 7, 2020

Who Was Leif Erikson?

Atun-Shei Films
Published 9 Oct 2019

Happy Leif Erikson Day! Allow me to regale you with the saga of the daring Viking who sailed to North America five hundred years before Columbus (that hack) and called it Vinland. We all know his name and his famous deeds – but what sort of man was Leif Erikson?

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September 1, 2020

King Philip’s War: The Most Important American War You’ve Never Heard Of

[Update, 29 Dec 2022 – Andy has uploaded a new video to correct some of the errors he made in this presentation.]

Atun-Shei Films
Published 9 Jan 2019

A generation after the first Thanksgiving, the sachem of the Wampanoag led a coalition of Native American tribes to battle against the ever-encroaching European colonists of New England.
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August 30, 2020

Why Gods and Generals is Neo-Confederate Propaganda (and Objectively Sucks)

Filed under: History, Humour, Media, Military, USA — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Atun-Shei Films
Published 12 Aug 2019

Like if Ken Burns and Mr. Plinkett had a baby.

Gods and Generals (2003) is a four and a half hour long epic from the director of Gettysburg (1993), chronicling the first two years of the American Civil War in the Eastern Theater from the point of view of General Stonewall Jackson. In this video essay / review, I examine how the film is an insidious piece of pro-Confederate propaganda, echoing the inaccuracies and misconceptions of the notorious Lost Cause myth.

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August 22, 2020

Creoles, Kaintucks, and the Culture War of Early New Orleans (feat. The Cynical Historian)

Filed under: Americas, France, History, Humour, USA — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Atun-Shei Films
Published 21 Aug 2020

For #ProjectFrance, I collaborated with @The Cynical Historian to teach y’all about the cosmopolitan cultural exchange between revolutionary France and a country called the United States of America in the late 18th and early 19th century. In this video, I discuss the contentious relationship between Anglo-Americans and French Creoles in New Orleans in the years after the Louisiana Purchase.

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~REFERENCES~

[1] Lo Faber. “Anglo-Americans” (2018). 64Parishes https://64parishes.org/entry/anglo-am…

[2] Richard Campanella. Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (2008). University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Page 170-171

[3] Peter J. Kastor. “Louisiana Purchase and Territorial Period” (2018). 64Parishes https://64parishes.org/entry/louisian…

[4] Daniel Rasmussen. American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt (2011). Harper Perennial, Page 16

[5] Kimberly S. Hanger. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 (1997). Duke University Press, Page 54-56

[6] Mary Gehman. The Free People of Color of New Orleans (2009). Sheridan Books, Page 49-51

[7] Rasmussen, Page 159-163

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