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The War Geoffrey C. Ward
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Ken Burns's the Civil WarRobert Brent ToplinKen Burns |
Ken Burns's documentary The Civil War made television history, breaking all viewing records for a PBS series. Indeed, forty million people saw it, more than the populations of the Union and the Confederacy combined. Newsweek praised it as "a stunning television documentary." For a generation of Americans, this documentary is the Civil War. Yet many professional historians criticized it sharply for ignoring the roles of minorities, pointing to a lack of women and of blacks throughout, a disregard for the aftermath of the war (particularly its legacy to race relations), a conventional emphasis on military history rather than social history, and uneven coverage of the military campaigns that gave short shrift to the bloody Western front. Ken Burns's The Civil War brings together detractors, supporters, and Ken Burns himself in a volume that will inspire readers to look again at this stunning documentary, at the way television shows history, and at the Civil War itself. Some contributors are sharply critical. In "Noble Women as Well," Catherine Clinton describes the experiences of women ... |
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The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward
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The National Parks Dayton Duncan
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An Illustrated HistoryAmazon.comBooks |
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The National Parks Dayton Duncan
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Mark Twain Geoffrey C. Ward
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Horatio's Drive Dayton Duncan
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The National Parks Dayton Duncan
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Baseball Geoffrey C. Ward
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Ken Burns's AmericaGary R. EdgertonKen Burns |
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Jazz Geoffrey C. Ward
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