
A digital destination by filmmaker Ken Burns providing historical context to today’s issues and sparking conversation.
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“I think that we really do a disservice to history and to the experiences of the people who lived through it, when we paper over the violence of the American Revolution with the set of very idealized images that we have of the Founding Fa...
A new UNUM playlist highlights individual stories from America’s tumultuous inception. In clips from The American Revolution, we spotlight individuals throughout the film—from lesser-known stories like Mumbet, an enslaved woman who sued for...
“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”
—Thomas Paine, Common Sense
The political philosophy of the American Revolution is foundational to mode...
250 years ago, Common Sense, the most important pamphlet in American history, was first published, lighting up the colonies with a newfound hope for freedom.Written by Thomas Paine, a newcomer to America, it put words to a revolution. He si...
Photo Credit: José A. Alvarado Jr./Trinity Church NYC
Florentine Films started production on The American Revolution ten years ago. 2015. That often feels like ancient history. Obama was still President. There was no Generative AI. You cou...
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