In the second program of this three-part series, Lucy Worsley debunks the myths behind the American Civil War. At the Lincoln Memorial, she explains that the civil war pitted the "free" North against slave-owning Confederate states in the South, but Abraham Lincoln's personal views and the behavior of his troops toward African Americans were not as noble as they appeared. In the South, Lucy learns how history was rewritten in a bid to downplay the evils of slavery and how a 1915 blockbuster film about the Civil War relaunched the Ku Klux Klan. She visits the Georgia countryside and discovers that Gone with the Wind's technicolor depiction of the old South and contented slaves was part of a continued effort to whitewash history. Back in Washington DC, a historian explains that the next person to reconsider the Civil War's legacy was Martin Luther King. He demanded the USA honor a "bad check" written when freedom was promised at the end of the war. Finally, Lucy travels to Charlottesville, Virginia and meets locals with differing opinions on a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee.

Originally released by BBC, 2019. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 22, 2019.

Introduction: American History's Biggest Fibs: The American Civil War (2:22); --Lincoln Memorial (2:28); -- Slaveowners under Threat (3:12); -- Civil War Erupts (4:13); -- Turning the War (2:19); -- Music in War (4:37); -- Lincoln's Assassination (5:51); -- After the Civil War (3:42); -- Convict Leasing (2:54); -- "The Birth of a Nation" (4:29); -- Civil Rights Movement (3:19); -- Racial Tensions Continue (8:09); -- Credits: American History's Biggest Fibs: The American Civil War (0:35);.