Tag: American Revolution

– Americans More or Less Have Always Been Divided – by Jane Levere | Forbes | November 16, 2025 The American Revolution, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, premieres tonight on PBS and airs nightly through Friday, November 21. The full series is…

– American’s Founding Turned the World Upside Down – by Anne Easton | Forbes | November 14, 2025 During a recent press event, prolific producer Ken Burns points to his dog and jokingly says, “This is Chester, my executive producer. He always checks everything just to make sure I get it right. At this point…

– An Illustrated Companion to the Series – by Ted Widmer | The New York Times | November 10, 2025 An important historical anniversary is coming in 2026, and that can mean only one thing. Ken Burns will be ready with a PBS documentary (airing this month). As Ryan Gosling sang in “Barbie,” “Can you…

– Democracy is not the intention of the Revolution. It’s a consequence of it. – by Chadwick Moore | New York Post | November 11, 2025 Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American…

– This is a Story for Everybody – by Kelly Lawler | USA Today | November 12, 2025 Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been trying to tell the story of America for 10 years. It’s just a coincidence that it’s premiering in a political moment in which America is reckoning with the story of itself daily.…

– Dismaying But Ultimately Exhilarating – by George F. Will | The Washington Post | November 12, 2025 History’s gears are lubricated by gore. Witness America’s Revolutionary War, whose continuing reverberations have done more to improve the course of human events than any other event in history. The war was fueled by crystalline ideas couched in…