Showing 1 - 7 of 7 articles tagged "The Civil War"

• Posted Wednesday 4/06/22 at 2:25AM EDT

  Ranking every Ken Burns documentary

  Esquire's ranking has the recently released Benjamin Franklin (No.

• Posted Tuesday 3/16/21 at 2:30AM EDT

  Ken Burns is still optimistic about a shared American story, says The Civil War would be "naturally" different if he made it today

  The New York Times Magazine's David Marchese asked Burns if he was still optimistic about the United States in the...

• Posted Monday 11/06/17 at 10:48PM EST

  Historian Shelby Foote from PBS' The Civil War apparently held racist views of blacks

  The late historian, who has been in the news after apparently influencing Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly's views on...

• Posted Wednesday 11/01/17 at 7:58PM EDT

  In defense of Ken Burns’ The Civil War

  It’s unfair to blame a 14-second Shelby Foote clip from Burns’ epic documentary for White House chief of staff John...

• Posted Wednesday 11/01/17 at 3:54AM EDT

  Did Ken Burns’ The Civil War teach John Kelly that the war was the result of “the lack of an ability to compromise”?

  As Jonathan Chait notes, the White House chief of staff’s controversial claims about the Civil War “are an almost verbatim...

• Posted Tuesday 10/31/17 at 6:30PM EDT

  Ken Burns responds after White House chief of staff said a "lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War”

  “Many factors contributed to the Civil War.

• Posted Tuesday 9/19/17 at 11:03PM EDT

  The Vietnam War’s biggest flaw is its “many sides” approach to history

  The flaw in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary — and in Burns’ past work on The Civil War —...