Watched the first episode last night. Well aware of Burns biases, but can still learn things I didn’t know. Enjoyed it so far.
I look at Burns work this way. He hands me a bag of diamonds with some lumps of coals. The lumps are not always obvious unless you’re a researcher, but the diamonds are brilliant.
His use of testimony or letters in the civil war bring it to a personal level.
Collectively his works are adding to the historical record of the history of the US and it’s culture.
We have a lot of comment here about race and baseball, but his baseball series is the definitive work on the sport.
Exactly, kinda like the tour guide at the Ryman telling old stories, I'm sure he added some bias but 95% was educational.