Utter tripe. We had to stop watching it.
Not surprising after his North South fairytale. 😣
He was “One and DONE.” His Civil War Series was great.
EVERY other series could have been written by the SPLC.
I gave up on him decades ago.
He inflates the importance of females during the Revolution.
It is just a well crafted PowerPoint presentation. Anybody can do this. Getting it platformed nationally is something the left has mastered well.
I don’t need to smell crap to know that it stinks.
Everyday I celebrate knowing that my house stands on lands stolen by white dudes from natives.
Why do so many here get butt-hurt when these things are pointed out? The Indians lived here, the white man showed up, we expanded, and they lost. Its a fact. Thats just how life goes. And thats how its gone throughout human history. There are winners and losers.
The contradiction of developing a document saying “all men are created equal” while owning slaves is a historical fact. No sense in hiding it. The founders were great, courageous men, but not perfect.
The need for a nice, santized history where the white colonists were perfect, the Indians were uniformly savages, and slaves just kind of didn’t exist is ridiculous. History isn’t a Saturday morning cartoon.
I’ve watched parts of the series. And listened to an interview with Ken Burns on CNBC. He was uniquivocally clear that George Washington was the greatest man of his age, and without him, there is no successful revolution and no United States.
Spanish and Portugese Explorers aren’t White men.
Ken Burns starts his series with the alleged inspiration by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of Franklin’s Albany Plan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Plan
That may be true, although some scholars dispute it. In any event, it is NOT “hard left”!
Besides that, some hard leftists despise Burns’ America Revolution series, alleging that It focuses too much on the war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gOtiLAKtRw
Whatever your opinion, a series on the America Revolution is very appropriate for Thanksgiving time!
I prefer the Biblical view of how the world worked:
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
Romans 3:23
Universal applies to any point or any time in history no need for economic or political propaganda to get mixed in.
During World War II “The Greatest Generation” as it was called went off to war and in their not so glorious moments they became:
Three Minute Men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_minute_men
The Avi Loeb of history.
hang that judge that reinstated PBS federal funding ..
He mentioned the founders who had slaves every other scene practically
He’s been on my no fly list for a long time.
It should star in 1492, the introduction of the non-indigenous people and small pox into a culture of savages.
Wasn’t the greedy white men stealing native non country land they were teachers of things like the wheel houses medicien crops...........................
Some things never change.
Like his other major series, he’ll end up wasting a quarter of the programming telling us how bad black people had it.