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@MatthewTitus88 Midwestern painter who has a super recognizable aesthetic. Also, Ken Burns made a documentary about him for his “America” series in the 1980s. You can watch it (+ other episodes) for free here (https://archive.org/details/Ken-Burns-America/5+Thomas+Hart+Benton.mp4)
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@MatthewTitus88 Midwestern painter who has a super recognizable aesthetic. Also, Ken Burns made a documentary about him for his “America” series in the 1980s. You can watch it (+ other episodes) for free here (https://archive.org/details/Ken-Burns-America/5+Thomas+Hart+Benton.mp4)
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You can watch all of the episodes of Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” documentary for free on the PBS website right now (https://www.pbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/)
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You can watch all of the episodes of Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” documentary for free on the PBS website right now (https://www.pbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/)
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#KenBurns on the Truth Behind #AmericanIndependence - YouTube
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#KenBurns on the Truth Behind #AmericanIndependence - YouTube
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I have to say, Ken Burns's American Revolution really shed some light on what it must've felt like in that time period, even for non-combatants. Hearing that much detail about all the conflicts really gives you a better understanding I think that's beyond the usual sugar coated presentation of the history. It's long but, I really recommend watching all of it.
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I have to say, Ken Burns's American Revolution really shed some light on what it must've felt like in that time period, even for non-combatants. Hearing that much detail about all the conflicts really gives you a better understanding I think that's beyond the usual sugar coated presentation of the history. It's long but, I really recommend watching all of it.
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Ken Burns Talks About The Impactful Way To Celebrate America At 250, And Why Polarizing Times Have To Be Put In Perspective
#News #Politics #America250 #ElectionLine #KenBurns #PBS #TheAmericanRevolutionhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/ken-burns-america-250-1236972238/
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Ken Burns Talks About The Impactful Way To Celebrate America At 250, And Why Polarizing Times Have To Be Put In Perspective
#News #Politics #America250 #ElectionLine #KenBurns #PBS #TheAmericanRevolutionhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/ken-burns-america-250-1236972238/
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Ken Burns reflects on America 250 and George Washington’s legacy in modern political context
📰 Original title: Ken Burns on Trump’s America 250: ‘Washington needed no monuments’
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Here’s chef & educational content creator Bennett Rhea and Historical Documentarian Ken Burns talk (and unfortunately taste) foods from The Revolutionary war era (https://youtu.be/6pqK1nkvMqk?is=JHB_dnYBWIKH6FiB)
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Here’s chef & educational content creator Bennett Rhea and Historical Documentarian Ken Burns talk (and unfortunately taste) foods from The Revolutionary war era (https://youtu.be/6pqK1nkvMqk?is=JHB_dnYBWIKH6FiB)
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"From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen, not to be extinguished. Without consuming, it winds its progress from nation to nation, and conquers by silent operation. Man finds himself changed, and discovers that the strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it. And that in order to be free, it is sufficient that he wills it." #ThomasPaine
Trying to watch #TheAmericanRevolution by #KenBurns. I'm a lefty and know the lies and failures but also yea.
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"From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen, not to be extinguished. Without consuming, it winds its progress from nation to nation, and conquers by silent operation. Man finds himself changed, and discovers that the strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it. And that in order to be free, it is sufficient that he wills it." #ThomasPaine
Trying to watch #TheAmericanRevolution by #KenBurns. I'm a lefty and know the lies and failures but also yea.
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Der neue Ken Burns im Free-TV
Die Amerikanische Revolution
"Die sechsteilige Doku erzählt den Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg von den ersten Protesten gegen die britische Herrschaft bis zum Sieg bei Yorktown."
Es wird auch erzählt, worum es den Siedlern auch ging: Das Land der Ureinwohner! Die englische Regierung hatte eine Besiedlung verboten.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC-027934/die-amerikanische-revolution-geburtsstunde-der-usa/
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Der neue Ken Burns im Free-TV
Die Amerikanische Revolution
"Die sechsteilige Doku erzählt den Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg von den ersten Protesten gegen die britische Herrschaft bis zum Sieg bei Yorktown."
Es wird auch erzählt, worum es den Siedlern auch ging: Das Land der Ureinwohner! Die englische Regierung hatte eine Besiedlung verboten.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC-027934/die-amerikanische-revolution-geburtsstunde-der-usa/
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How Ken Burns and David Schmidt’s ‘The American Revolution’ Documentary Lends a Voice to the Underrepresented and Took 10 Years to Make
#Variety #News #KenBurns #TheAmericanRevolutionhttps://variety.com/2026/artisans/news/ken-burns-david-schmidt-the-american-revolution-1236765278/
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How Ken Burns and David Schmidt’s ‘The American Revolution’ Documentary Lends a Voice to the Underrepresented and Took 10 Years to Make
#Variety #News #KenBurns #TheAmericanRevolutionhttps://variety.com/2026/artisans/news/ken-burns-david-schmidt-the-american-revolution-1236765278/
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I've been listening to the American Revolution series of the fantastic history podcast Revolutions lately as well as acquiring the newish Ken Burns documentary series on the Revolution. A little inspiration that things can actually change for the better in America.
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I've been listening to the American Revolution series of the fantastic history podcast Revolutions lately as well as acquiring the newish Ken Burns documentary series on the Revolution. A little inspiration that things can actually change for the better in America.
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@gerrymcgovern Is there much still in the Ogallala? (Remembering #KenBurns on the #DustBowl and its legacy... ) #ecologicalbreakdown
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@gerrymcgovern Is there much still in the Ogallala? (Remembering #KenBurns on the #DustBowl and its legacy... ) #ecologicalbreakdown
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Why Wasn’t John Prine Included in Ken Burns’ Country Music?
Ken Burns’ Country Music documentary, which aired in 2019, is a monumental chronicle of the genre’s history.
#CountryMusic #KenBurns #wolink #ourmusicworld
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Ken Burns Discusses the State of American Democracy Ahead of 250th Independence Anniversary
📰 Original title: 'We are not out of the woods': Why democracy in the US is being tested
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Berlinale Series Market Amps Up
#Variety #Global #MarketsFestivals #News #AngelaChaves #BerlinFilmFestival #BerlinaleSeriesMarket #FernandoMeirelles #KenBurns #RubenOstlund -
Berlinale Series Market Amps Up
#Variety #Global #MarketsFestivals #News #AngelaChaves #BerlinFilmFestival #BerlinaleSeriesMarket #FernandoMeirelles #KenBurns #RubenOstlund -
New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University announces opening night lineup https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/730892/ #America250 #Football #JeffreyGoldberg #KenBurns #LiteraryFestival #NewOrleans #NewOrleansBookFestival #NewOrleansEvents #NewOrleansSaints #NewOrleans #NewOrleansSaints #NFL #saints #TheAtlantic #TulaneUniversity #WalterIsaacson
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‘Clueless,’ ‘The Karate Kid,’ ‘Glory,’ ‘The Big Chill,’ ‘High Society,’ ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Enter the National Film Registry
#MovieNews #Movies #AmyHeckerling #BingCrosby #BradBird #ChristopherNolan #Clueless #FrankSinatra #Frida #GraceKelly #Inception #JohnCarpenter #JonathanDemme #JulieTaymor #KenBurns #MaryPickford #PeterWeir #RichardLinklater #SalmaHayekPinault #StephenDaldry -
‘Clueless,’ ‘The Karate Kid,’ ‘Glory,’ ‘The Big Chill,’ ‘High Society,’ ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Enter the National Film Registry
#MovieNews #Movies #AmyHeckerling #BingCrosby #BradBird #ChristopherNolan #Clueless #FrankSinatra #Frida #GraceKelly #Inception #JohnCarpenter #JonathanDemme #JulieTaymor #KenBurns #MaryPickford #PeterWeir #RichardLinklater #SalmaHayekPinault #StephenDaldry -
Berlinale Series Market: Ken Burns ‘American Revolution’ and Ruben Östlund and Alonso Ruizpalacios Titles Score Selection
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Berlinale Series Market: Ken Burns ‘American Revolution’ and Ruben Östlund and Alonso Ruizpalacios Titles Score Selection
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Just finished Ken Burns: The American Revolution and phew, that was a lot of different and conflicting emotions. Especially given current events.
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Just finished Ken Burns: The American Revolution and phew, that was a lot of different and conflicting emotions. Especially given current events.
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so like 10 people watched the whole thing
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so like 10 people watched the whole thing
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#drumpf talking tonight! Good time to continue watching #KenBurns #TheAmericanRevolution2025TVProgram 💪
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #KenBurns #Documentary Ken Burns' Latest Historical Deep-Dive Is the Perfect Binge for Fans of 'Kevin Costner's The West' http://dlvr.it/TPkbP3
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While I'm nattering on about TV ... watch Ken Burns' "The American Revolution." If you're a USian, just watch it. Well worth your time. The series pulls no punches, you'll likely come away with a deeper understanding of unresolved issues, and the last few minutes: that Hamilton quote, and the final words of the series.
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While I'm nattering on about TV ... watch Ken Burns' "The American Revolution." If you're a USian, just watch it. Well worth your time. The series pulls no punches, you'll likely come away with a deeper understanding of unresolved issues, and the last few minutes: that Hamilton quote, and the final words of the series.
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This image "Road Not Traveled" was used for the documentary film by Ken Burns about Country Music. #landscapephotography #NaturePhotography #naturelovers #Kenburns #nature #art #wallart #wallartforsale #smokymountains #travel buff.ly/43hgjzB
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The #KenBurns #AmericanRevolution documentary is surprisingly good. Diverse, critical perspectives. Hits the highs and the lows of the revolution, tackles complicated topics from personal perspectives. Recommended.
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The #KenBurns #AmericanRevolution documentary is surprisingly good. Diverse, critical perspectives. Hits the highs and the lows of the revolution, tackles complicated topics from personal perspectives. Recommended.
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This image "Road Not Traveled" was used for the documentary film by Ken Burns about Country Music. #landscapephotography #NaturePhotography #Kenburns #nature #art #wallart #picoftheday #smokymountains #travel Please refer to link for info and pricing buff.ly/3YEuiNm
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The Ten Best History Books of 2025 – Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian magazine’s picks for the best history books of 2025 include We the People, The Stolen Crown and Medicine River. Illustration by Emily LankiewiczThe Ten Best History Books of 2025
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today
By Meilan Solly – Senior Associate Digital Editor, History November 25, 2025
Smithsonian magazine’s picks for the best history books of 2025 include We the People, The Stolen Crown and Medicine River. Illustration by Emily LankiewiczNext July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these events, with the semiquincentennial offering a chance to reflect on the nation’s triumphs and failures alike. But the question of which stories will be told—and how they’ll be framed—remains a point of contention.
This debate over how to tell American history is unfolding at a “moment that people have described as existential, certainly a moment of division,” documentarian Ken Burns told Smithsonian magazine earlier this month, in a wide-ranging interview about his new American Revolution series on PBS. “Maybe there could be some understanding that during this revolutionary period, we were more divided than we are now. And maybe by going back and reinvesting some time in this origin story, we’ll be able to put the ‘us’ back in the U.S.”
Against this backdrop, the ten history books we’ve chosen to highlight this year serve a dual purpose. Some reflect on the fraught nature of the current moment, detailing how the nation’s past—including the American Revolution and the creation of the U.S. Constitution—informs its present and future. Others offer a respite from today’s reality, transporting readers to places like Tudor England and ancient Egypt. From a biography of Amelia Earhart to the story of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, these are ten of Smithsonian magazine’s favorite history books of 2025.
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore’s 700-page history of the U.S. Constitution revolves around a central conceit: that this founding charter, written by a group of white men in Philadelphia 238 years ago, was never meant to be a static document. As Lepore, a historian at Harvard University and staff writer at the New Yorker, writes in We the People, “Through experiment and experience, Americans came to agree that if such a strange, fragile thing as a written constitution were to endure, it would, as time passed … need to be both revised and repaired, improved and updated.”
This argument runs counter to originalism, a theory that promotes interpretation of the Constitution as it was understood at the time it was written. In Lepore’s view, originalists “rely on an artificially bounded historical record that disadvantages the descendants of people” who had no say in the creation of the Constitution, including women, the enslaved and Native Americans. Legal scholars rely on the published writings of powerful men to debate the Constitution, she argues. But historians must consider the opinions of those who didn’t serve as delegates to the Constitutional Convention and had no way of publishing their opinions in 1787. “For the historian,” Lepore writes, “unpublished documents written by less powerful people do not ‘count for nothing,’” as former Solicitor General Robert Bork argued in 1990. “In fact,” she says, “they count for rather a lot.”
We the People builds on the Amendments Project, an initiative Lepore spearheaded that tracks more than 11,000 amendments proposed in Congress between 1789 and 2022. The vast majority of these efforts never came to fruition, with just 27 amendments ratified by the states since 1791. But that doesn’t mean the failed proposals are insignificant: As Lepore tells the Guardian, “It’s so hard to amend the Constitution. If you look at efforts to do it, you just see this really big, colorful canvas of contestation, which is narratively rich and politically important.” Written in lyrical prose, Lepore’s new book unpacks this history, presenting a timely argument about the need for the Constitution to keep evolving to meet society’s needs.
Editor’s Note: The featured image at the top is by WP AI.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Ten Best History Books of 2025
#2025 #250thAnniversary #americanRevolution #bestHistoryBooks #founding #history #jillLepore #kenBurns #meilanSolly #momentOfDivision #smithsonian #smithsonianMagazine #uSConstitution #unitedStates #weThePeople #whichStories
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The series is complete. As a nation the question remains open.
Finishing Ken Burns’ The American Revolution
#KenBurns #TheAmericanRevolution #Politics #TV
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The series is complete. As a nation the question remains open.
Finishing Ken Burns’ The American Revolution
#KenBurns #TheAmericanRevolution #Politics #TV
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Finishing Ken Burns’ The American Revolution
We completed watching Ken Burn’s excellent The American Revolution this week. Thank goodness for streaming, allowing us to view it on our schedule. Two spoiler alerts. First, we won the war. Second, we’re still struggling with many of the differences that made the formation (and perhaps the continuation) of what would become the Untied States such a close thing.
The series is excellent and I highly recommend it. Burns and his team do their expected thorough job of researching and producing the documentary. We’re lucky there were so many letters written by those beneath the status of the cast of characters most of us could identify at a glance, because that material provides much of the content and texture inside the frame.
The production does it’s job so well that my hunch is some will come away learning things they never knew about a period of our history we’ve wrapped in so many myths it would keep troops at Valley Forge warm. I would also guess that in today’s political and social climate there will be far too many who tune out or don’t tune in because they prefer the comfort of the mythology.
Which is a damned shame. As I said in an earlier post about the series:
I’m not hearing things differently, but I’m hearing how folks can take their own meaning out of many of the things written and said during that period that led to this country’s founding. History may indeed rhyme, but it also echoes. Often in strange ways.
If you have followed any of Burns’ work you know his approach to American history is to tell the parts of stories we leave out of the picture. I grew up in a part of the country where you could turn your head left or right, spit, and hit the history of the American Revolution or the Civil War. I count myself lucky that my 10th grade history teacher kept reminding us that there was so much more to discover about our past than he had the time to teach us, planting a seed of curiosity that continues to grow inside of me to this day decades later.
Ken Burns and his team continue to keep that curiosity growing. We should all be grateful and unafraid that they do so.
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
#americanRevolution #books #culture #history #kenBurns #pbs #politics #revolutionaryWar #streaming #theAmericanRevolution #tv
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"The war serves a nationalist purpose, and the revolution threatens it."
"Allegiance and protection are reciprocal; withdrawing that protection dissolves allegiance."
"The transformation happens in minds before it happens on battlefields."
#KenBurns #AmericanRevolution #History #HumanRights #CivlRights #CivilLiberties #Politics #Democracy #Justice #HalfHeartedFanatic
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I finished watching all 6 episodes of #KenBurns' documentary on the #AmericanRevolution yesterday.
So many things I didn't realize about the revolution.
I knew that the "patriots" had it tough but didn't realize it took 8 yrs to conclude the war; that they probably wouldn't have won but for the assistance of the French; how often they came to losing the war; & how devoted the volunteers who were able to survive the war were in continuing to fight on faith, often without being paid & nearly starved &/or frozen to death.
L:earning that Washington ordered the return of runaway slaves (who volunteered for both sides) to their "owners' (including himself & Jefferson) after the Americans won was disconcerting & put the lie to the phrase: "all men are created equal."
So much more to consider & ponder about the war that led to the foundation of our country, which was not as clean & neat as the mythology about it would suggest.
