American Heritage Series - Ten DVD Set

I cherish this data and information for its truthfulness, accuracy and presentation quality because it is founded on the original writings of many of our founding fathers. It makes clear why and how our nation became exemplary and strong. God blessed those men and our nation because of the God honoring behaviors of those wonderful patriots. They knew God, were men of prayer first. George Washington was given 300 slaves as a teenager. He made them part of his family. He was the first signer of an anti-slavery bill. One fourth of Washington's army were black men.

I'm not a 5-star type of reviewer. I hate the fact that most reviews tend to be a 5 star, or a 1 star. Generally speaking, the plethora of 5-star/1-star reviews shows a major bias and flawed review. Yet, after watching all 10 discs, I cannot help but give this a 5-star review. This is a 5-star product, that's why David Barton has made this a 10-DVD set. It literally takes that many DVD's to back track far enough, to compensate for the poor and factually bankrupt education students receive in regards to history. You cannot argue with David Barton. Why? Because he shows you the official documents that prove America's true Christian Heritage. With the rise of secularism in the United States, and myths that are now turned into firm beliefs, America's Christian Heritage is being wiped out of our history textbooks.I realized after watching this, that I received a very biased education. Due to the misrepresentation and misunderstanding of the "wall of separation between church and state" our public school systems leave out almost all of our true American Heritage. This is not only seen in high schools, as a person who completed my Undergraduate degree less than 6-months ago, this is seen at the University level as well. For example, I was taught that the majority of our founding fathers were deists, with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin potentially being atheists. Interestingly enough, the records of Congress show that Jefferson attended church at the U.S. Capitol building (yes it used to be a church) almost more than anyone! He was also the founder of the Virginia Bible Society. Franklin wrote numerous Prayer Proclamations and cited the Bible often.Interestingly enough, the majority of public schools today teach a very biased and fallacious history. Regardless of your religion or lack of religion, it is a historical fact that America is a Christian nation, governed by Christian principles. Even better, is the fact that we ALL have the freedom of religion, or lack of religion, and the freedom to express our religion as provided for American Citizens in our First Amendment. However, day by day American's are losing their rights of religious expression due to misrepresentation of "separation of church and state," and because American's don't know our Nation's history, WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN! Regardless of your religion, or view of history, I encourage you to buy these DVD's to see for yourself the actual documents, and what our Founders said.We have stooped low enough in our American education system to "teach" students fallacious history in order to leave out our Christian Heritage. If you don't agree with me, I'm not presenting opinion! 55 individuals were at the Constitutional Convention which formed our Constitution. Out of 55 at the Constitutional Convention, 52 of the 55 were members of Christian Orthodox Churches! I could go on and on. It's all presented in this DVD collection. Provided alongside of documentation from the Records of Congress and many other sources.This DVD-collection is a must have, if you are looking for authentic history, provided with evidence for the claims.

At a time when it seems that we can't trust our TV, many scientists, many representatives, many historians, hollywood etc., along comes this DVD series to make us realize that those doubts are not unfounded. Real, documented, unspoken facts are still out there to show us the reality of things and to show us that we're not crazy to think that things have seemed suspiciously out of wack for decades. It's actually more than decades when you start seeing where and how the truth and intent of our founders and Constitution have been corrupted. To those who have looked at history as something bland and boring and who've listened to "TV experts" and political pundits tell you about our roots and founding and founders intent and Constitution and who has manipulated who, you will find this information and the documents presented to be very surprising. I was pretty stunned to find out a few things in particular. It's one thing to hear judges, lawyers and pundits tell you about their interpretation of the Constitution and founders intent and quite another to see and hear the founders words and documents setting the record straight. There is so much more. The sections on Americans of African decent are pretty amazing as well. The history of unity and patriotism is nice to learn after our usual TV diet of division and accusation. Unity and patriotism DO also have a strong history in America. America really is a great country wherever patriots stand. I also love the way these DVDs not only don't hold back, but they show the strong religious heritage that guided our founders. They just lay it out there and as we all know, facts are stubborn things. There are some amazing stories about the patriot preachers who guided their congregations to stand for their God given rights. My only wish is that they would have removed some title sequences and just kept the dialogue moving. Since this was originally produced for TV, the title sequences that would come out of commercials or breaks are in there. Some info is repeated several times on these discs, but it's interesting information and since there is so much information on these discs, it's not a bad thing to hear points of interest a few times in different context to help you absorb it. David Barton does an excellent job laying out the stories and documented history of this country. If you really take pride in this country and want to understand why we excelled and what obstacles have run interference, this is a very worthy investment that I will I think that many would watch over and over and encourage others to watch. It would make an exellent gift too.

After catching a few episodes of this series on Prime before it was removed I was hooked on finding out more of what the Founding Fathers thought during the formative days of our great nation. David Barton touches on the many aspects of the great men who fought and strived to get our nation started on the right foot. It's revealing to see how much has been progressively removed and twisted from our early history to push a distorted agenda. I've already ordered a few books to accompany my desire to find out more of what's been erased from our past. Almost makes one fearful for what the future holds for our country.

Awesome series

This is an excellent DVD series and goes into great detail about how our country was founded and on what principles were used to craft our republic. This series is for people who what to truly understand the intent of our founding documents and the people who made it happen.

Great DVD set to teach the lost American History you do not learn in school. Primary sources are used throughout so it is not hype but true and accurate. Good for anyone and especially families to learn about what makes America great.