Can Ken Burns Win the American Revolution? NYT | Top Stories By: Jennifer Schuessler 24 October 2025 at 00:53 Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does not want to talk about President Trump. © Thea Traff for The New York TimesKen Burns on a battlefield outside Saratoga Springs, N.Y., scene of the first major patriot victory of the American Revolution.
The BBC Is in Trouble, and It Keeps Making Things Worse NYT | Opinion By: Merissa Marr 15 November 2025 at 22:52 The question of how to be a public broadcaster for everyone isn’t going to get easier, but the British broadcaster can do better in the attempt.
Ken Burns’s ‘The American Revolution’ Speaks to Our Cultural Clashes NYT | Top Stories By: James Poniewozik 14 November 2025 at 20:13 In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent.
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