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 […]
Most people probably haven’t heard of Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, which is what makes this story all the more remarkable. In the past, Ken Burns has crafted documentaries about well-known people or […]
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 […]
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