Lessons from the American Revolution (with Ken Burns)
About this episode
Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein discuss their decade-long journey creating a documentary on the American Revolution and the lessons learned from it.
Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein spent nearly a decade making a twelve-hour documentary on the American Revolution. This is what they learned from the thousands of stories and events that resulted in the United States of America. It's a story of world-changing ideas, contradictory figures, myths that do us no good and what it means to be in pursuit of a more perfect union. You can watch Ken Burns The American Revolution on PBS, PBS.org and the free PBS app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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