About this episode

Tim Boyum interviews Ken Burns about America's 250th anniversary and the meaning of being American.

Host Tim Boyum travels to New Hampshire to talk to documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about America turning 250 years old for this week's episode of Tying it Together. Burns talks about his latest documentary on the American Revolution, what the founding documents mean to today's America, and what he thinks it means to be an American. He tells Tim which historical figures he would most want to sit down with for dinner and what Mount Rushmore might look like if we chose again.

People in this episode

Host: Tim Boyum

Guest: Ken Burns

Topics covered

• American history
• documentary filmmaking
• national identity
• founding documents
• historical figures

Keywords

• Ken Burns
• American Revolution
• national identity
• founding documents
• Mount Rushmore

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: American Revolution, Mount Rushmore

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