Gettysburg in Literature, Film, and History: Setting up the Battle

Key Battles of American History

History

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this special episode, first aired on Steve Guerra’s Beyond the Big Screen Podcast in 2019, James, Steve, and Sean McIver begin a four-part discussion of the 1993 classic Civil War film Gettysburg. In this first episode we will fill in some of the background of the battle, the film, and the book on which the film is based.

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0:52.9	of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:55.1	right down to the present.
0:57.0	War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its size, and established it as a
1:02.4	global superpower.
1:04.0	Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
1:08.4	Welcome to Key Battles of American History, a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important history. Welcome to Key Battles of American History, a podcast in which we discuss
1:12.5	American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars. Here is your
1:17.6	host, James Early.
1:32.7	Hello, everybody. This is James with a quick announcement. Well, as you know, the Korean War series is over, and the next series, of course, is going to be on the Vietnam War. In order to
1:39.1	give myself plenty of time to research, write, and record the episodes and to make them as good as possible,
1:45.5	I thought I would buy myself some more time by running a series that I did with Sean McIver
1:51.5	and Steve Guerra on the epic 1993 film Gettysburg. We recorded this back around late 2018 or early 2019.
2:02.9	I can't remember exactly, but it was around that time.
2:06.2	And we, needless to say, took a long time to get through the whole movie.
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