A retelling of James Garfield's assassination and other recent TV programs about history show an interest in saying 'who we were, who we are and who we're going to be,' explains presidential historian ...
Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...
"As I was revising my little book on the Battle of Bennington earlier this year, I wondered how Burns and Atkinson would ...
COLUMN. In a spectacular documentary, the filmmaker advocates for a nuanced and diverse understanding of the history of the ...
A truckload (or ambulance-load) of Emmys and acclaim later, "Pitt" has become synonymous with the very best of what ...
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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. While watching the Ken Burns production “The American Revolution,” a salient ...
Those of us who are steeped in Jewish values must advocate for civil rights for all marginalized groups. Those of us who love ...
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Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...
There’s never a bad time to explore and consider the origin story of the United States, but now feels like a particularly relevant period for reexamining who we are and what we stand for as a nation.
Today's guest is Ken Burns, the filmmaker who has massively reshaped national conversations about everything from the Civil War to baseball to jazz to immigration to national parks with epic ...