BBC - American History's Biggest Fibs (2019) Part 1 The American Revolution

Lucy Worsley explores how American history has been mythologised and manipulated by generations of politicians, writers and protesters.

Part 2 The American Civil War

Lucy debunks the myths behind the American Civil War. Travelling across the country, she explains how, although Abraham Lincoln has gone down in history as the saviour of the union who brought an end to slavery, he did it at the expense of the bloodiest conflict ever to take place on American soil. Lincoln's 'free' North may have defeated the 'slave-owning' Confederate states in the South but, Lucy finds, the legacy of the conflict continues to affect American society. Meeting locals in Charlottesville, she encounters differing opinions on a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee. The statue became a fatal flashpoint in 2017, when at a mass rally, Confederate flags mingled with Klan costumes - sad proof, one historian suggests to Lucy, that the Civil War has never really ended.

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