Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. Today is a special edition of the

podcast because we're going to talk about something we don't normally talk about. Actually, we're going to go over something that was filmed about a year ago for a documentary,

a last Dan Studios put out last year, called American Monument.

I did three of the interviews for that documentary, and two of them I did extended interviews with

with the people we were interviewing and I saved them and I haven't shared them and

I had the thought well I'll do like a Civil War week or in a Revolutionary War week and I haven't shared him and I had the thought well I'll do like a Civil War week or in a

Revolutionary War week and I didn't know how far I get with other wars maybe but I'll just

have some history content and I didn't get very far. Time got away from me and I thought you know what I'm not going to keep sitting on this. I'm going to release it. So I did release one of the episodes that Brian McClanahan and I did together where we talked about the Civil War but we traced through American

history kind of what led to it and then afterward the how the battle lines are

still drawn and we it I think I called it the unending civil war. We're still in it in a way.

It's never really ended in one way and so you can go check that out and by the way if you haven't seen American Monument you need to check that out

uh... go to youtube go to actually the best place to go is this last stand studios dot org

and you can find the rumbling the YouTube link and the Facebook link it's being

shadow band on Facebook and YouTube has put in age restrictions but go see what

they don't want you to see there you go but anyway this this next interview I want to share with you is from a

gentleman who's in my opinion just a phenomenal writer very clear he's an independent

historian mostly writes about Civil War reconstruction, biographies.

He did a great one on Ulysses Us Grant.

He is, he has someone who's written for the New York Times.

I mean, that's how good he is and he's not a progressive.

But he's not he doesn't have the academic accolades in history that would get you

mainstream approval in the historical disciplines or anything he's an independent

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