Thanks to Jason Herbert for the invitation to appear on his wonderful podcast Historians at the Movies. Many of you are familiar with Jason’s work in which he brings historians together to provide commentary and historical context for some of our favorite Hollywood movies. It’s both entertaining and informative.
The most recent episode of the show dropped yesterday. In it I join Rich Condon and Waitman Beorn to discuss the movie Gettysburg. We had a blast talking about the movie, including both the good and the really bad.
You can watch it on YouTube…
…or listen to the audio on Spotify.
Last November I put together a presentation, to mark the 30th anniversary of the movie, for my paid subscribers. You can now watch it at the top of this post if interested.
Need a movie refresher? Here are a few of my favorite clips from the movie.
I promise that this is the last post on Gettysburg that you will see for quite some time.
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Talking Gettysburg, The Movie