[LisaS]

I love the History Channel almost as much as the Science Channel(s).
If you haven't seen The Revolution series, I highly recommend it. I've seen it off and on for several years now, but it is running back-to-back today (of course).

For some reason, in school, we didn't really learn the details of the Revolutionary War. I guess because we were so pressed for time and we only got the highlights. In college I took Am Hist after Civil war so didn't get it then either.

This series really does a good job - until I saw it the first time several years ago I didn't really know what Benedict Arnold did or why, why Washington crossed the Delaware and how critical that was, how much controversy there was in the execution of the war, how dire things were, who the other generals were and what they did, etc. Absolutely fascinating. There are other History Channel series as well, I think one is "the Generals" or something like that where they look at Morgan or Nate Green or LaFayette in some detail.

The whole series is like $30 on Amazon I think, pretty good bargain for good history for adults or kids.