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Washington rallying the Americans (Princeton University Art Museum )

"American Revolution" is a crisis watch

Melanie McFarland
Filmmaker Ken Burns speaks during a press conference ahead of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of The Battle of Lexington in front of the Minuteman Statue. (Photo by Joanne Rathe Strohmeyer/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Ken Burns meets America's latest crisis

Melanie McFarland
Self portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci and The Last Supper (Photo illustration by Salon/PBS)

PBS' mesmerizing "Leonardo Da Vinci"

Melanie McFarland
Ken Burns speaks onstage during the 2024 GQ Creativity Awards at WSA on April 11, 2024 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for GQ)

Ken Burns calls Trump an "opioid"

Gabriella Ferrigine
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Bison in Montana (Photo by Craig Mellish)

Ken Burns and "The American Buffalo"

Melanie McFarland
Ken Burns, filmmaker, co-director and co-producer, speaks during a panel before "The U.S. and the Holocaust" screening at United Nations on February 09, 2023 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Ken Burns defends Clarence Thomas photo

Nardos Haile
Ken Burns (Photo by Alvin Kean Wong)

Ken Burns on "the toughest questions"

Nicole Michael
An immigrant family looking at the Statue of Liberty from Ellis Island. circa 1930. (Courtesy of Library of Congress)

Ken Burns makes the Holocaust personal

Melanie McFarland
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Benjamin Franklin, circa 1785. Artist Joseph Siffred Duplessis. (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Ben Franklin, pop culture darling

Alison Stine
Benjamin Franklin portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Ken Burns on the flawed Ben Franklin

Hanh Nguyen
Muhammad Ali stands over fallen Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw in Lewiston, Maine. May 25, 1965 (John Rooney/AP Images via PBS)

Burns: Muhammad Ali "an avatar of love"

Melanie McFarland
Muhammad Ali (Photo courtesy of Michael Gaffney)

"Muhammad Ali" is a winner by knockout

Melanie McFarland
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Ernest Hemingway at his home Cuba, late 1940s. (Courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston)

Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear

David Masciotra
Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) students at Eastern New York Correctional Facility in an advanced bachelor’s degree seminar. (Courtesy of Skiff Mountain Films)

College Behind Bars is a complex lesson

Ashlie D. Stevens
Regina King and Hong Chau from HBO's Watchmen (HBO/Getty Images/Salon)

"Watchmen" & the uncertainty of Vietnam

Hanh Nguyen
Dwight Yoakam signs Martin D-28 guitar. Yoakam is among the 76 of the 101 country music artists interviewed for the series who signed two Martin D-28 guitars. (Jared Ames)

Think you don't like country music?

Melanie McFarland
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Elisabeth Moss in "The Handmaid's Tale" (Elly Dassas)

What about the white women?

Melanie McFarland
John Kelly (Getty/Win McNamee)

John Kelly, hero of the Confederacy

Heather Digby Parton
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Susan Walsh)

How Sarah botched Civil War history

Jeremy Binckes
"The Vietnam War" (PBS)

What Ken Burns gets wrong about Vietnam

Patrick Lawrence
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Author Norman Mailer speaks at an anti-war rally at the bandshell in New York's Central Park, March 26, 1966.

Ken Burns doesn't get antiwar protesters

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How economics mired the U.S. in Vietnam

Peter Hilsenrath - The Conversation
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Nixon, Vietnam & polarization politics

Ken Hughes
"The Vietnam War" (PBS)

Ken Burns on making "The Vietnam War"

Melanie McFarland
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