| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Antietam. Dir. by Michael Epstein. Prod. by Caroline Suh. History Channel, 2006. 60 mins. (A&E Home Video, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407; 888-423-1212; http://www.store.aetv.com/)

This film presents the Civil War battle of Antietam as a turning point in American history. After introducing the event as the bloodiest battle in Western civilization to that date (September 17, 1862), the film switches to background. Ignoring major Confederate losses in the western theater, the work claims that the rebels were winning. While they wanted to clinch independence by breaking Northern civilians' will to fight and gaining foreign support, President Abraham Lincoln was ready to use emancipation against them after a Federal victory. Exactly how the battle came to occur at Sharpsburg, Maryland, is never completely explained in this poorly organized segment.

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