This sounds weird but sometimes when I feel overwhelmed I'll go back and watch these old US history videos, John is such a great guy and I originally watched these at a much simpler time in my life
Ah yes, Late-night cramming the day before the APUSH exam is a most joyous pass time in which sleep eludes you and the feeling of unpreparedness slips away in a bought a euphoria as you listen to the melodious voice of John Green.
Emily VanDerEems hello! lol My teacher was on maternity leave for the portion on the years of the Gilded Age and Western Expansion, so.....yay for making low-production quality/budget documentaries? Anyway....I really need this video
... I DEADASS FORGOT HE WROTE BOOKS!! I read all of them a few years ago and then high school hit i I replaced John green fiction with John green crash course
Watching this series has helped me appreciate how recent all of these events and changes have taken place. The causes and effects feel obviously connected to my life in a way I couldn't appreciate before. All of this makes me incredibly excited and terribly nervous for the not yet written history of our nation and the world.
This is seriously one of my favorite era's of American history. I spent my senior year with my interdisciplinary party hat on discussing the Art, Economics, and Social history (three different seminars!) of this era, so it was great to touch on the politics that I didn't quite get to delve into. Plus I absolutely LOVE political cartoons! Great episode, one of my favorites.
This is such a great boon as a supplemental educational resource, that is neither dry nor boring. Thanks CC team for creating such an entertaining, informative, and enjoyable series of educational videos for the knowledge-enthusiasts in a manner that enhances our joy of learning !
Fun fact: In "The Wizard of Oz" the cowardly lion is a representation of a single person - William J. Bryan, as opposed to allusions to whole classes (Scarecrow - farmers, Tin Man - industrial workers and such)
Nikko Kelaidis Yep. I for the most part agree with the idea of not holding a group responsible for the actions of their forefathers... But if you are white & can watch all of these & not feel any hint of “Well that was WRONG,” then I fully agree with the idea there is something wrong with you.
+孙明亮 It is a test for Advanced Placement classes. They are sponsered by "The College Board" and are considered the highest level of classes in American high schools. At the end of the class you take a test to determine how well you did in the class.
That is true. It's probably one of my all time favorite books. But on the note of Crash Course, thanks for refreshing my memory on APUSH for my midterm.
I couldn't figure out how to start my own comment, but YOU SIR, are a genius! You fit so much information in to your presentations. I use your videos in my class all the time. Thank you.
To learn about US history because the only thing I learned in my country about the US is that it gained independence in 1776... which doesn't tell me ANYTHING about what happened after that.
The US tends to go through rises and falls of equality. It's well established we're in a second gilded age by most economists like Krugman. The reason why we're in a second gilded age is due to capital accumulation from automation and labor saving technologies, the same thing that happened in the industrial age. Only this time, we're experiencing rising inequality from the computer and AI revolutions. It will likely end in another great depression. Bubbles can't last forever and eventually pop.
So I recently (and by recent I mean, like two days ago) taught my students about Populism and the Gilded Age by analyzing the Wizard of Oz and the ways in which it represents various aspects of this era. In all of my research of this connection, I've never found any evidence that L. Frank Baum actually wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a metaphor for this period. In fact, I've read that he was asked straight out about it and responded by saying no, it's just a children's story. However, the story is a very close representation. Like, too much to be coincidence. I was wondering what your opinion was, as an author. I know that once everything is said and done, books belong to their readers, but do you 1)subscribe to the interpretation of TWWoO as a metaphor for populism and the Gilded Age, 2)do you believe LFB really did just write it as a children's story or was he simply saying that so as not to attract criticism from his contemporaries, and 3)is it possible to project our own interpretations onto a story to the extent that we could potentially bastardize an author's intention? -Kellen
Kellen Holowicki -- I'm in the same camp, Kellen. Here's an article for folks who are interested: www.shsu.edu/his_rtc/2014_FALL/Wizard_of_Oz_Littlefield.pdf
Kellen Holowicki I'm writing an Extended Essay on this very topic; in a nutshell, how The Wizard of Oz has allusions to US socioeconomic issues. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
My APUSH Summer Assignment was reading a book in the Gilded Age and I was having trouble understanding the last chapter which was basically about free silver and that whole debate. This helped a lot
I have to do a project on the Gilded Age and Civil Rights (not put together) and I just found out there was crash course for US History and I am soooo happy right now
John Green helped me pass my history tests. Even though I haven't gotten my grade back yet and given I find history very dry and difficult, I probably failed.
I'm so impressed you guys showed a sketch of WWE's "the undertaker" during the mystery doc script. Cheers to one hello of an obscure reference! Love the show!
We read Plunkitt of Tammany Hall in my freshman year of college. There are a lot of parallels between their type of politics and our... Citizens United era of political history.
I too would love it if an economics CC could be made. Love these videos! I use them in class to give students an overview before we dig deeper. Thanks!
I'm not actually here because of apush, I'm here because I have a college us history class, zero energy to finish the chapter, and an entire damn essay due 😭😭
A note on the idea of interdisciplinarity: it's valuable to approach history with the idea of being interdisciplinary and taking into account many different approaches and perspectives. But let's be honest, how many history students are afraid of science and mathematics and never take those perspectives into account when they approach topics in history? Instead, what I hear around the tables in my history department at my university are culture, gender, and post-colonial narratives being repeatedly uttered in history classes where the students believe that economic and political history are too old fashioned and a global approach (much like John's) is considered too superficial. I totally disagree with a lot of the culture, gender, and post-colonial history students and I take a global approach to history, with a particular interest in economic and ecological history, but I'm considered naive among many of my peers. All this to say, interdisciplinary approaches are good but history students tend to use interdisciplinaritary as a shield to hide behind some other disciplines (anthropology, sociology, culture studies, gender/women's studies) while shooting down others (economics, science, political studies). In essence, the pro-interdisciplinary team tends to paint the rest of us as the naive idiots who don't care about other approaches when we do just in different ways.
Arthur Sewall, who was William Jennings Bryan's first running mate, is actually my great uncle. He was a business man from Maine who was put on the ticket in order to sway the Northern business vote and he was also a member of a religious movement based off of the writings of a man named Emmanuel Swedenborg.
I fondly remember William Jennings Bryan from my own APUSH days, mainly because the textbook reprinted a song about him that went, "Prairie avenger, mountain lion/ Bryan Bryan Bryan Bryan."
I realy enjoy the u.s history videos and all your other videos! I was thinking that since your an author you should do a series on your writing process when writting novels when you finish us history. I think that would inspire more writers but until then keep up the good work : )
Agreed. Sort of "old style" corruption like bribes, political machines, partisan bureaucracy and expropriation of property for private development has largely disappeared. What has increased in this age is lobbying and some cases of regulatory capture in agencies like the SEC; this sort of corruption is arguably more insidious and harder to root out. Especially lobbying because there are actually lobbies that support public interest and all have 1st amendment protection since Citizens United.
That moment when you realize this exist before the midterm exams.... and you just want to cry, and cry, and cry for living under a rock for far too long. FML
I really hope that whenever you're done with U.S. History that you go back to doing a few more literary courses. I found it very intersting when you went over Catcher In The Rye
Mr. Green! Mr. Green! The points you make to your "past self" regarding the humanities, history in specific, and the lifelong commitment to continual education that is necessary to ensure that a person is adequately knowledgeable and a well rounded human being functioning confidently and independently in our society at large, among many, many others, are well observed on your part and, apparently, eventually very well learned on his. With all of that said and duly considered, Ifeel that I need to point out that, in my view, the apparent harshness, derision, and, occasionally, even cold condescension that you level upon your younger (and by consequence less experienced, wise, and even tempered) self seems to speak volumes about how you think of the person who you used to be and who, in fact, eventually helped to make you into who you are. I like to think that I get it, of course; it's a bit, after all, and isn't meant to offer fodder for lazy and untrained psychoanalysis. What it's ACTUALLY meant to do, so far as I can work out (as a former professional facilitator), is two-fold. First and foremost, the bit allows you, whenever you choose, to establish a comedic tone early in the episode or to bring to bear some necessary comic relief with Young John's appearances closer to the end of episodes. The second thing that the bit accomplishes, which is quite practical and well thought out (and which demonstrated to me not only your prowess as an educator, but also your impressive fundamental understanding of how to best utilize your chosen medium of RUclips), is that it gives your high school student, classroom audiences a character within the world of the show that they are given to understand that they can relate to, and he is generally presented both near the beginnings and the endings of episodes. The very first time I saw this in action I realized that if you are at all successful at getting your viewers to relate to your Young John, it will serve to draw them in by leading the viewers to imagine themselves sharing a classroom with YJ. This, in turn, strongly strengthens the effect which you already create when you talk directly down the barrel of the camera, the effect that you are speaking directly to each individual viewer on her or his own. In the end, these choices, which I have to assume were given strong thought before being implemented, layer together to create the feeling or notion that the viewer is in an energetic but attentive classroom environment being instructed by an EXCELLENT teacher that is, somehow, providing each and every pupil with his full and undivided attention. This is just one of the many facets of your productions that clearly show me how good you are at what you do. Thank you for all of the excellent videos and the education! Please keep it up!
i was cleaning my room while i had this video on, i was only listening to it. but at times during the video, i could have swore you stopped talking about the Gilded Age and started talking about today
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"Suppose you have a US history test, and you only have a day left to study for it. But I repeat myself."
One hour?
I hate that that's literally me rn
2 hours before 😌
brianna danae 1 hour remains
brianna danae 1 hour before
This sounds weird but sometimes when I feel overwhelmed I'll go back and watch these old US history videos, John is such a great guy and I originally watched these at a much simpler time in my life
only 1890's kids will get this video.
If there are people still alive from 1890 I applaud them.
Nah I think the last one died in April of last year.
@@2afault :(
Only they can relate
Maybe my 102 year old uncle would get it...maybe?...
Oh, so hating Congress is traditional.
Yeah, if you don't hate Congress, you're not a true American.
Ah yes, Late-night cramming the day before the APUSH exam is a most joyous pass time in which sleep eludes you and the feeling of unpreparedness slips away in a bought a euphoria as you listen to the melodious voice of John Green.
hello fellow APUSH crammers..
Hi!!!!!
Emily VanDerEems hello! lol
My teacher was on maternity leave for the portion on the years of the Gilded Age and Western Expansion, so.....yay for making low-production quality/budget documentaries? Anyway....I really need this video
+AlphaWolf098 p
Surprisingly I had to do this for APWH.
+Emily VanDerEems hELLO ME TOOOO
John Green is now officially my favorite person. His books have all the feels and because of his videos I got my first A on my APUSH test yesterday🎉
Jasmine Washington Lucky you 💀💀
Jasmine Washington god bless you
... I DEADASS FORGOT HE WROTE BOOKS!! I read all of them a few years ago and then high school hit i I replaced John green fiction with John green crash course
Maci Dismuke 🤣🤣🤣
Less than 12 hours until the APUSH test and here I am
cheers lads lol
me too man... me too
Same here
For me it's less than two hours :)
i have the aice test in 27 minutes. and here i am. listening to this at 1.5x speed
If only I could grow a beard, I could triple my electoral power. -stan
Watching this series has helped me appreciate how recent all of these events and changes have taken place. The causes and effects feel obviously connected to my life in a way I couldn't appreciate before. All of this makes me incredibly excited and terribly nervous for the not yet written history of our nation and the world.
It's that time again ... John Green rakes in a few million dollars cuz of ap cramming
I can attest that APUSH students are still watching these videos the night before the test.
Eclipse *3 hours before
anilla_md SAME
This is seriously one of my favorite era's of American history. I spent my senior year with my interdisciplinary party hat on discussing the Art, Economics, and Social history (three different seminars!) of this era, so it was great to touch on the politics that I didn't quite get to delve into. Plus I absolutely LOVE political cartoons! Great episode, one of my favorites.
I'm gonna fail my SAQ on this tomorrow bc I'm reading the comments vs actually watching the video 😔
Did you fail?
This is such a great boon as a supplemental educational resource, that is neither dry nor boring. Thanks CC team for creating such an entertaining, informative, and enjoyable series of educational videos for the knowledge-enthusiasts in a manner that enhances our joy of learning !
What? No, my AP test isn't tomorrow and I'm not doing last minute studying!
+ShamuGamesAndStuff Hell yeah it is. Good Luck though
me rn
literally me
Bruh i have a huge exam tmrw and nervous
ShamuG don't worry, nothing has changed, I'm not doing the same thing right now
NO, I AM NOT STUDYING FOR APUSH!!! I AM WATCHING THIS FOR LEISURE.
Same
Same and I'm not even an American citizen
+Chike Ezebilo American history is rather chaotic isn't it?
KingPsychoZ I think the more detailed and untarnished it is, the more chaotic it will be. So it's a rather good thing
Chike Ezebilo it's also Intersting as hell too.
He should've shaved off their hair so he could get in a 4th vote!
+stevensays1 then his pubes for vote #5
Wanquan Loot oh boy
+Wanquan Loot then put o glasses for vote 6.
The sad thing is that I could actually do this in the next election, and it would still work.
@@enteal r/woooosh
Fun fact: In "The Wizard of Oz" the cowardly lion is a representation of a single person - William J. Bryan, as opposed to allusions to whole classes (Scarecrow - farmers, Tin Man - industrial workers and such)
I've found watching many Crash Course US History episodes in a row is actually really depressing...
Nikko Kelaidis Yep. I for the most part agree with the idea of not holding a group responsible for the actions of their forefathers... But if you are white & can watch all of these & not feel any hint of “Well that was WRONG,” then I fully agree with the idea there is something wrong with you.
I don't live in US, but I LOVE history. And I have one question: what the hell is an AP test?
+孙明亮 It is a test for Advanced Placement classes. They are sponsered by "The College Board" and are considered the highest level of classes in American high schools. At the end of the class you take a test to determine how well you did in the class.
You also earn college credit if you score high enough. Essentially you're taking a college class in high school.
AP test stands for Armor-Piercing, and if you pay attention to American News you know how well Armor-Piercing ammunition does in the classrooms
+孙明亮 Advanced placement. Im in AP everything. Im also homeschooled.
+Yoko Bongo you have to pay for yours?😤
1st semester review crammed into 26 videos. thanks john & crash course team, you guys are the best you have no idea how fun & helpful these are!
"That leaves the Supreme Court untainted, but don't worry, the Dred Scott Decision is worth at least, like, eighty years of tainting."
"80 years of tainting" . . . there are two ways to read that
@@jamesrpascoe mmm... go on...
thanks for producing these crashcourse videos guys!
The Lonely Director is Nick, who works on Crash Course Sciences with Hank. -stan
2020 APUSH students are crying rn
Good luck on this test 😭
@@taisstea7306 Let's pray it's a topic we don't all loathe
You know it
I like the reference to The Outsiders. "Stay gold Ponyboy... uhhh, I mean America."
+Jessica Quinn The Outsiders is an excellent and very saddening book.
That is true. It's probably one of my all time favorite books. But on the note of Crash Course, thanks for refreshing my memory on APUSH for my midterm.
Same. When I first read it with my class, I wasn't too interested. But I went back a while later and was absorbed.
It was very interesting. I feel like the movie adaptation was one of the few book-movie renditions that didn't butcher the book.
+Pranav Sukumaran Actually, I read it all the way back in Middle School, ah, good memories.
I vote that the word sombrerro should be replaced by "interdisciplinary party hat"
non
I second the motion
Good idea because sombrero literally just means “hat”
George Plunkett and Boss Tweed are the first people quoted on this show who talk like normal people.
john green is legit my favorite person rn
I couldn't figure out how to start my own comment, but YOU SIR, are a genius! You fit so much information in to your presentations. I use your videos in my class all the time. Thank you.
Tbh thank god for this series... I'm cramming for my APUSH final so much
What is APUSH? I don't live in America...
+minimooster it stands for Advanced Placement U.S. History
It's how I roll. Villainous. -stan
CrashCourse hey
We all know why we're here.
Not for apush. I’m here for the knowledge
To learn about US history because the only thing I learned in my country about the US is that it gained independence in 1776... which doesn't tell me ANYTHING about what happened after that.
Quarantine
iLikeMovies so I can be ungrounded
AP US History test tomorrow, let the cram session begin. You're videos help immensely.
And now my love for twain has increased. Seriously, the man was awesome.
I think we currently live in the second gilded age.
Watching all the crash course videos the night before the test and still hoping to pass. Lol. I'm an awful student.
La Quisha Heart you chose the right guy to learn from
Same
worked for me for ap world 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️😂😂
You and me both
Finally, some quotes from people who actually talk like people!
Corruption and 2016. Wow, history repeats itself again!
again, history repeats
Cheezeyman0 Soros,Rockefeller
The US tends to go through rises and falls of equality. It's well established we're in a second gilded age by most economists like Krugman. The reason why we're in a second gilded age is due to capital accumulation from automation and labor saving technologies, the same thing that happened in the industrial age. Only this time, we're experiencing rising inequality from the computer and AI revolutions. It will likely end in another great depression. Bubbles can't last forever and eventually pop.
Yep good ole democratic corruption
A BIG THANK YOU FROM FRANCE ! Very instructive videos !
Your videos really help me study for my history college course thank you :)
So I recently (and by recent I mean, like two days ago) taught my students about Populism and the Gilded Age by analyzing the Wizard of Oz and the ways in which it represents various aspects of this era. In all of my research of this connection, I've never found any evidence that L. Frank Baum actually wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a metaphor for this period. In fact, I've read that he was asked straight out about it and responded by saying no, it's just a children's story. However, the story is a very close representation. Like, too much to be coincidence. I was wondering what your opinion was, as an author. I know that once everything is said and done, books belong to their readers, but do you 1)subscribe to the interpretation of TWWoO as a metaphor for populism and the Gilded Age, 2)do you believe LFB really did just write it as a children's story or was he simply saying that so as not to attract criticism from his contemporaries, and 3)is it possible to project our own interpretations onto a story to the extent that we could potentially bastardize an author's intention? -Kellen
thats cool. please tell us more.
Kellen Holowicki -- I'm in the same camp, Kellen. Here's an article for folks who are interested: www.shsu.edu/his_rtc/2014_FALL/Wizard_of_Oz_Littlefield.pdf
Kellen Holowicki I'm writing an Extended Essay on this very topic; in a nutshell, how The Wizard of Oz has allusions to US socioeconomic issues. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
My APUSH Summer Assignment was reading a book in the Gilded Age and I was having trouble understanding the last chapter which was basically about free silver and that whole debate. This helped a lot
I have to do a project on the Gilded Age and Civil Rights (not put together) and I just found out there was crash course for US History and I am soooo happy right now
I think this is a terrible idea. -stan
CrashCourse hi
John Green helped me pass my history tests. Even though I haven't gotten my grade back yet and given I find history very dry and difficult, I probably failed.
i've been up all night watching these. good luck fellow APUSHers
I'm so impressed you guys showed a sketch of WWE's "the undertaker" during the mystery doc script. Cheers to one hello of an obscure reference! Love the show!
When you have to write an essay about the Gilden age tomorrow for APUSH 😅🙌🏻
Same I have mine May 6, and im kinda nervous. :T
Luckyy, the test was okay when I took it about a month and a half ago.
More like "When you have to write an essay about the Gilded Age that's due in > 30 minutes (SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!)"
We read Plunkitt of Tammany Hall in my freshman year of college. There are a lot of parallels between their type of politics and our... Citizens United era of political history.
I too would love it if an economics CC could be made. Love these videos! I use them in class to give students an overview before we dig deeper. Thanks!
Thank you Crash Course for the Rush reference at 2:22 ... it helped me feel better during my cram studying
Who else had to watch this for a history class
👇
I feel like at times John’s eyes are staring deep into my soul, judging me on my procrastination in studying
this guys great!! he makes history fun and informative
Love John from the past's t-shirt. "My Patronus is a bookworm" I really don't think you can get any nerdier than that. I may have to go buy one.
These videos are really helpful in my history class. Thanks.
Remember when this used to be history? Now it's the present.
What's wrong with America today?! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm not actually here because of apush, I'm here because I have a college us history class, zero energy to finish the chapter, and an entire damn essay due 😭😭
Anyone else get stoned and watch these at 75% speed? Nobody delivers information faster and more efficiently than John Green.
His voice is sooooo relaxing it makes me fall asleep >.<
Grecia Cuervo PAY ATTENTION!!!
I passed my college class with an A+, thanks to this guy :)
You know you're an adult when you're here studying for self purposes rather than for AP Exams... Cries
A note on the idea of interdisciplinarity: it's valuable to approach history with the idea of being interdisciplinary and taking into account many different approaches and perspectives. But let's be honest, how many history students are afraid of science and mathematics and never take those perspectives into account when they approach topics in history? Instead, what I hear around the tables in my history department at my university are culture, gender, and post-colonial narratives being repeatedly uttered in history classes where the students believe that economic and political history are too old fashioned and a global approach (much like John's) is considered too superficial. I totally disagree with a lot of the culture, gender, and post-colonial history students and I take a global approach to history, with a particular interest in economic and ecological history, but I'm considered naive among many of my peers.
All this to say, interdisciplinary approaches are good but history students tend to use interdisciplinaritary as a shield to hide behind some other disciplines (anthropology, sociology, culture studies, gender/women's studies) while shooting down others (economics, science, political studies). In essence, the pro-interdisciplinary team tends to paint the rest of us as the naive idiots who don't care about other approaches when we do just in different ways.
im watching this and the rest of the playlist at 2x speed
Arthur Sewall, who was William Jennings Bryan's first running mate, is actually my great uncle. He was a business man from Maine who was put on the ticket in order to sway the Northern business vote and he was also a member of a religious movement based off of the writings of a man named Emmanuel Swedenborg.
10:07 The Federal Reserve is not part of the government.
oh yes it is, it claims not to be but it is.
Its a privately run organization
so to study for finals I've found that watching every episode of crash course us history might be my best chance for a decent grade
Anybody else here during the 2020 recession?
I fondly remember William Jennings Bryan from my own APUSH days, mainly because the textbook reprinted a song about him that went, "Prairie avenger, mountain lion/ Bryan Bryan Bryan Bryan."
Binge watching all 48 videos right before the corona APUSH test
Thank you! This video is going to be such a big help on my test today!
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that there is no space between the colon and the word Crash in the title?
+Abigail Emmett I am too.
+Abigail Emmett didn't bother me until you pointed it out. THANKS
+Abigail Emmett You are not alone.
Whyyyy did you point that out😩
It's going to bother me forever now. How dare you.
Ok, I love history. But because of you... I LOVE IT EVEN MORE! I like the way you actually make it real and not fin a text bookie way. :) thanks!!!
Never thought I'd see a Metal Slug reference here of all places.
I love this approach to teaching history.
Hey John Green! In the title of this video there's no space between Politics: and Crash Course US History.
Thanks,
Eric
I am always so happy when John gets the mystery document right :3
2:22 Epic Rush reference xD
I realy enjoy the u.s history videos and all your other videos! I was thinking that since your an author you should do a series on your writing process when writting novels when you finish us history. I think that would inspire more writers but until then keep up the good work : )
Boss Tweed and George W. Bush were never in the same place at the same time...coincidence? I think not.
I'm totally not cramming for a apush essay!!! I, a non procrastinating good student, am watching this without stress! :,)
I actually knew the mystery document! this is great!!!!
Agreed. Sort of "old style" corruption like bribes, political machines, partisan bureaucracy and expropriation of property for private development has largely disappeared. What has increased in this age is lobbying and some cases of regulatory capture in agencies like the SEC; this sort of corruption is arguably more insidious and harder to root out. Especially lobbying because there are actually lobbies that support public interest and all have 1st amendment protection since Citizens United.
I’m not studying for a test, I just love history.
Is it weird that I look forward to this more than just about everything else in my feed?
Hank's videos: Exxon Mobil ads.
John's videos: Maker's Mark ads.
Hmm...
'Murica Moment "Plunkitt we'll do it live" is one of the best Crash Course moments of all time!
That moment when you realize this exist before the midterm exams.... and you just want to cry, and cry, and cry for living under a rock for far too long. FML
I really hope that whenever you're done with U.S. History that you go back to doing a few more literary courses. I found it very intersting when you went over Catcher In The Rye
Who else is watching this in preparation for the AP test on Friday?
no
Emily Netherton ME ME ME ME ME
Emily Netherton not me
Mr. Green! Mr. Green!
The points you make to your "past self" regarding the humanities, history in specific, and the lifelong commitment to continual education that is necessary to ensure that a person is adequately knowledgeable and a well rounded human being functioning confidently and independently in our society at large, among many, many others, are well observed on your part and, apparently, eventually very well learned on his. With all of that said and duly considered, Ifeel that I need to point out that, in my view, the apparent harshness, derision, and, occasionally, even cold condescension that you level upon your younger (and by consequence less experienced, wise, and even tempered) self seems to speak volumes about how you think of the person who you used to be and who, in fact, eventually helped to make you into who you are.
I like to think that I get it, of course; it's a bit, after all, and isn't meant to offer fodder for lazy and untrained psychoanalysis. What it's ACTUALLY meant to do, so far as I can work out (as a former professional facilitator), is two-fold. First and foremost, the bit allows you, whenever you choose, to establish a comedic tone early in the episode or to bring to bear some necessary comic relief with Young John's appearances closer to the end of episodes. The second thing that the bit accomplishes, which is quite practical and well thought out (and which demonstrated to me not only your prowess as an educator, but also your impressive fundamental understanding of how to best utilize your chosen medium of RUclips), is that it gives your high school student, classroom audiences a character within the world of the show that they are given to understand that they can relate to, and he is generally presented both near the beginnings and the endings of episodes. The very first time I saw this in action I realized that if you are at all successful at getting your viewers to relate to your Young John, it will serve to draw them in by leading the viewers to imagine themselves sharing a classroom with YJ. This, in turn, strongly strengthens the effect which you already create when you talk directly down the barrel of the camera, the effect that you are speaking directly to each individual viewer on her or his own. In the end, these choices, which I have to assume were given strong thought before being implemented, layer together to create the feeling or notion that the viewer is in an energetic but attentive classroom environment being instructed by an EXCELLENT teacher that is, somehow, providing each and every pupil with his full and undivided attention. This is just one of the many facets of your productions that clearly show me how good you are at what you do.
Thank you for all of the excellent videos and the education! Please keep it up!
AP test 2k16
same
same
That feeling when you read the comments and realize your AP US History test was over a decade ago...
:(
AP test 2k17
Allison Meadors good luck tomorrow! APUSH 2k17
i was cleaning my room while i had this video on, i was only listening to it. but at times during the video, i could have swore you stopped talking about the Gilded Age and started talking about today
Suppose you are a crammer. Now suppose you're an Apush student. But I repeat myself
Dammit John, your sarcasm makes my day, every day.
6:05 Look to the left and toward the front. Does anyone else think that the guy two to the left of the dwarf looks like Phoenix Wright?
I really love this show, so what happens when us history ends, is there going to be another series?
And the apush cram continues through the ages