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The American Revolution film doesn’t end with the British surrender at Yorktown. One of the places it continues is Fraunces Tavern in New York City. For UNUM on the Road, Ken Burns explains why.

Starting Sunday night on @pbs.org, watch me (and many others) in this guy’s film #AmericanRevolutionPBS @unumkenburns.bsky.social

The first US veterans were farmers, laborers, and tradesmen. Washington called their endurance a “standing miracle.” On Veterans Day, we honor every generation that has carried that same resolve.

A clip from our upcoming film, The American Revolution (on PBS Nov. 16).

With lawn chairs and fall jackets (and some terrific revolutionary gear), thousands watched The American Revolution at Mount Vernon last month. Before the event, co-director David Schmidt chatted with some of the crowd for UNUM on the Road.

On this day 94 years ago, Buddy “King” Bolden, the legendary cornetist, died in obscurity in the Louisiana State Hospital for the Insane. Watch the clip from Jazz.

Today is National Bison Day. Spend a moment thinking about this extraordinary animal. Here’s a clip from The American Buffalo.

Ken Burns on The American Revolution | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein talk about their new PBS docuseries, "The American Revolution," which is being released ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S.

ICYMI: @kenlburns.bsky.social & Sarah Botstein on their new PBS docuseries:
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UNUM on the Road stopped at @c-span.bsky.social in Washington, DC. No makeup artist, so Ken Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein handled it themselves.

Washington dealt with tougher mornings.

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In this @theatlantic.com article, directors @kenlburns.bsky.social, Sarah Botstein, & David Schmidt describe how they made their 12-hour epic, 'The American Revolution,' about a war so shrouded in myth. Listen to the piece, read by David Schmidt, on Hark Audio: share.harkaudio.com/WLhaDy3NYv2S...

Earlier this month, the filmmakers visited Philadelphia to promote The American Revolution with @whyy.org. Here's what they had to say outside of a shuttered Independence Hall.

Ken Burns at the Barricades Ken Burns, possibly the world’s most celebrated documentary filmmaker, talks about his latest series—’The American Revolution’—and the existential threat to public television on a walk through Bowling Green.

Ken Burns, possibly the world’s most celebrated documentary filmmaker, talks about his latest series—’The American Revolution’—and the existential threat to public television on a walk through Bowling Green.

Hemingway From the playlist "Hemingway" on Ken Burns UNUM.

Learn more in our UNUM Playlist: Hemingway
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#OnThisDay 85 years ago, Ernest Hemingway published "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

Inspired by his reporting on the Spanish Civil War and released as the world plunged into another, the novel explored what people are willing to fight and die for — and what war takes from them in return.

How Do You Film the Revolution? What we learned making a documentary about a war so distant in time

How do you make a documentary about a subject that predates the invention of photography? @kenlburns.bsky.social, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on what it took to film “The American Revolution”:

Ken Burns might be the one thing this 250-year-old nation of patriots can agree on. GQ wandered around Monticello with the legendary filmmaker www.gq.com/story/ken-bu...

How the Framers Reverse Engineered Against a Tyrant The Atlantic Festival, Saratoga, SoHo, and more

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Read UNUM’s latest post on how the Framers reverse engineered against a tyrant on Substack.

We've always had a real set of American virtues and values, and we've always had brutality and political violence. So far, the former has always kept pace and eventually won out.

Ken Burns joins @timmiller.bsky.social in the latest Bulwark Podcast:

As playoff baseball begins, we look back to George Will’s timely reflection on the link between the game, patience, and democracy.

Opinion | Ken Burns on Why the American Revolution Never Ended The documentarian reflects on the ideas that drove our nation’s founding — and how they echo today.

“Our job now, to land the plane, is repair, restoration, reconciliation,” Ken Burns tells David Leonhardt on The Opinions. Together, they explore what America’s next story should be, why the American Revolution has never really ended — and the greatest existential threat facing the country today.

On this day in 1990, the first episode of The Civil War premiered on @pbs.org

A lot can change in 35 years.

For Episode 2 of Pursuit — a new podcast from @prx.org and @constitutionctr.bsky.social — Jeffrey Rosen and Ken Burns discuss the virtue Temperance.

Today, and for the next eleven weeks, we’ll be posting clips of our own Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen on Pursuit (a new podcast from @prx.org and @constitutionctr.bsky.social), discussing how the founders understood happiness as intimately connected to the idea of virtue.

Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the most colorful and consequential men to occupy the office of President of the United States, was born on this day in 1908. As President, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Learn more in this clip from THE CONGRESS.

The Civil War From the playlist "The Civil War" on Ken Burns UNUM.

For weeks, civilians lived under constant bombardment, unsure if they would survive the siege.

Learn more in our UNUM Playlist: Civil War
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Today in 1864, the Civil War reached a breaking point in Atlanta.

Union General William T. Sherman had surrounded the city, cutting off food and supplies.

Rather than risk a costly assault, he ordered his men to shell Confederate defenses and the city itself.

When we think of the American Revolution, we think of Yorktown, West Point, Bunker Hill—East Coast battles fought 75 years before the first West Coast state. For UNUM on the Road, Ken Burns explains why the revolution matters in every state.

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“The rights of the individual are greater than the rights of the monarch.” Ken Burns and Fred Ryan discuss Ronald Reagan’s relationship to the American Revolution.

#AmericanRevolutionPBS, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, premieres this November.