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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

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”:

How Do You Film the Revolution?

What we learned making a documentary about a war so distant in time

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GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · 6d

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How the Framers Reverse Engineered Against a Tyrant

The Atlantic Festival, Saratoga, SoHo, and more

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · 6d

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

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9d

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:

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · 8d

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

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 11d

“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.

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.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · 17d

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

A lot can change in 35 years.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · 24d

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

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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The Civil War

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

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Aug 5

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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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jul 29

Happy birthday to @kenlburns.bsky.social

Ken Burns @kenlburns.bsky.social · Jul 29

And now a word from the Oval Office....

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jul 23

“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.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Hemingway

From the playlist "Hemingway" on Ken Burns UNUM.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jul 22

On this day in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born.

A journalist, novelist, and adventurer, Hemingway remained a major figure wherever he went.

Listen to the Hemingway’s report from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jul 16

Years later, he became the face of the Black Sox Scandal, accused of helping throw the 1919 World Series.

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Baseball

From the playlist "Baseball" on Ken Burns UNUM.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jul 16

“Shoeless Joe” Jackson was born today in 1887.

Raised in a South Carolina mill town, he couldn’t read or write - but he could hit.

He batted .408 his rookie year and .356 for his career, the third highest average in history. He once played barefoot and swung a 48-ounce bat named Black Betsy.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jul 9

What better place to celebrate July 4th than Monticello with 74 newly naturalized citizens. This year we celebrated the 249th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Their guy wrote it—Thomas Jefferson.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jun 27

What is the role of government? On this day in 1936, FDR gave his famous Rendezvous with Destiny speech and urged "a spirit of charity” over “a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." Watch the clip from THE ROOSEVELTS.

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jun 20

This month UNUM on the Road was in Texas at @lbjlibrary.bsky.social, with President and CEO of @tjmonticello.bsky.social Jane Kamensky talking about the high ideals and heavy sacrifices behind American independence. Stay tuned for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION this November. #unumontheroad

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jun 12

UNUM on the Road continued last week in Dallas, with author Rick Atkinson talking about the war’s most pivotal battle. Check out his new book THE FATE OF THE DAY from @crownpublishing.bsky.social and stay tuned for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION this November. #unumontheroad #americanrevolutionpbs

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UNUM Ken Burns @unumkenburns.bsky.social · Jun 7

Public media is at risk.

Congress is considering deep funding cuts to PBS, threatening the shows, local coverage, and educational programming that have shaped generations.

Visit ProtectMyPublicMedia.org for more.

#SavePBS

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