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Ken Burns Revisits The American Revolution in Powerful New Documentary Series
“This is, I think, the most important event since the birth of Christ. The creation of the United States of America.”—Ken Burns. If you’re convinced you know all there is to know about the American Revolution–the period spanning approximately 1754 … Continue reading
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Nazi Town USA Makes Timely Debut on PBS
“It looked like any summer camp in America. It looked normal. But it wasn’t normal. It was Nazi camp.” If you’ve ever gone to summer camp as a kid, you probably joined your Girl or Boy Scout pals… or devout … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, America First, American Experience, American Fuhrer, Anti-Semitism, Camp Nordland, Camp Siegfried, Dorothy Thompson, Fritz Kuhn, German American Bund, German Gardens, John C. Metcalfe, Madison Square Garden Rally, Nazi Town USA, Nazism, PBS, Peter Yost, Racism, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, U.S. History
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The U.S. and the Holocaust Reexamined on PBS
“I feel a sense of urgency. We’re not trying to equate anything with The Holocaust. That would be a horrible, horrible thing to do. We’re just saying: ‘Let’s not get there again as human beings, please, let’s not get there … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Hitler, Anti-Semitism, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Geoffrey C. Ward, Guy Stern, Immigrants and Immigration, Jewish History, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Nazi Persecution, PBS, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Sarah Botstein, The Holocaust, The U.S and the Holocaust, U.S. History, World War II
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Ken Burns Celebrates Patriot Benjamin Franklin on PBS
Writer, printer, newspaper publisher, humorist, pundit, educator, scientist, inventor, postmaster, politician, diplomat, abolitionist, patriot. The list of Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments and aphorisms is long, storied and impossible to condense effectively in one short film, book or review. But Award-winning filmmaker … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolutionary War, Authors, Benjamin Franklin, Dayton Duncan, Electricity, Ken Burns, Mandy Patinkin, PBS, Poor Richard's Almanack, Science and Technology, The Declaration of Independence, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The United States Constitution, U.S. History, War of Independence
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The Hatfields and McCoys Face Off in The Feud on PBS
“Bloody war in Pike County. The McCoys and Hatfields Doing Their Utmost to Exterminate Each Other.”—The New York Times, January 8, 1888. The Hatfield-McCoy feud has been called “the most famous family conflict in American history.” Yet most of what … Continue reading
1920 Bombing of Wall Street Revisited on American Experience
The parallels are unsettling. Immigrant profiling and deportation. American workers embittered by a profiteering moneyed class. Homegrown terrorists schooled in bomb-making and rhetoric by foreign-born anarchists. Russia vs. the F.B.I. As revisited in the fascinating new documentary, The Bombing of … Continue reading
Watch and Remember The Words That Built America
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. “— from The unanimous Declaration … Continue reading
John Lewis Inspires Us to Get in the Way
“I don’t see this President-elect as a legitimate President,” said Civil Rights icon and longtime U.S. Congressman John Lewis. “I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.” After … Continue reading
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