The Western Frontier of the United States is a subject that has often been both romanticized as well as vilified. There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that our treatment of the natives […]
We have a Shaker Village that I pass by every time I head down to the state capitol. I’ve seen Shaker furniture in various stores. Other than that, there was little that […]
Filmed in 1981, this hour-long documentary by noted filmmaker Ken Burns chronicles the building of the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River in New York City. It was timed to coincide with […]
Ken Burns has become the leading maker of documentaries in this country in the last twenty years. After viewing his series on Baseball, I knew by a quote at the beginning of […]
Thomas Jefferson is one of the enigmas of history. There is no doubt he was a great statesman but was a man of so many contradictions that history has a hard time […]
This documentary, which was originally a part of a series about America produced by noted documentarian Ken Burns, is a portrait of both the building Congress inhabits as well as the Congress […]
He wrote as though there had been no literature before him… as though he had discovered the art of telling a story about these folks that inhabit this continent… And that there […]
I can’t remember exactly how much time was actually covered in history class about the journey of Lewis and Clark to explore the land purchased from Napoleon and France by President Thomas […]
It is well that war is so terrible… we should grow too fond of it… – Robert E. Lee watching the battle of Fredericksburg. An anecdote about Wilmer McClain, who moved his […]
This was perfect timing. I’d loaded up my queue at Netflix with Ken Burns documentaries last year after finally viewing all of the Baseball boxed set and seeing just how terrific these […]
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