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Revolutionary War Was A Civil War Too, Says Ken Burns

Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...
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‘The American Revolution’ Review: Ken Burns’ Sluggish but Poignant PBS Docuseries Charts the Fight for Independence

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished.” Cultural ...
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Local History | Phil Holland: Burns and Atkinson take on the Battle of Bennington

"As I was revising my little book on the Battle of Bennington earlier this year, I wondered how Burns and Atkinson would ...
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'American Revolution' is a new Ken Burns documentary. Here's how and when to watch it

The documentary aims to look at the Revolution from multiple perspectives, moving beyond common myths. A large cast of actors, including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman, will voice ...
The Florida Times-Union

Bobby Stein is chairman of Better Angels Society supporting Ken Burns

Ken Burns' latest documentary, "The American Revolution," was financially supported by the Better Angels Society. The Better Angels Society is a nonprofit that has raised over $100 million for Burns ...

'With 'The American Revolution' series, director Ken Burns warns against the tendency to judge heroes of the past through the eyes of the present'

COLUMN. In a spectacular documentary, the filmmaker advocates for a nuanced and diverse understanding of the history of the ...
The Advocate

Why did filmmaker Ken Burns travel to Alexandria in 2023 to learn about a man named J.B. Lafargue?

In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The ...
America Magazine

The Catholic stories Ken Burns left out of his new American Revolution documentary

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Ken Burns got over his aversion to reenactments to make ‘The American Revolution’

New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns has chronicled some of the most important moments and people in American history – the Vietnam war, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin and the Civil War to name a few.
PBS

Lessons from Ken Burns' new series, "The American Revolution"

PBS debuts Ken Burns’ six-part American Revolution series, with experts exploring its insights. A new six-part PBS series, Ken Burns’ "The American Revolution: An Intimate History", explores the lives ...
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COLUMN: 'The American Revolution': The story of beauty, blood and complexity

Directed by Ken Burns with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, “The American Revolution” takes away the trimmings of nostalgia ...
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New Ken Burns series features Indigenous nations' role in American Revolution

Ken Burns’s new documentary series includes history often left out of textbooks: the economic and diplomatic roles sovereign Indigenous nations had in the American Revolution. The American Revolution, ...