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The Ten Best History Books of 2025 – Smithsonian Magazine
The Ten Best History Books of 2025 Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today By Meilan Solly – Senior Associate Digital Editor, History November 25, 2025 Get our newsletter! Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its…
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Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’ revisits the country’s founding – NPR
Review TV Reviews Ken Burns’ ‘American Revolution’ will make you think differently about U.S. history November 12, 202512:02 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air By David Bianculli, 8-Minute Listen Documentary producer and director Ken Burns came to prominence 35 years ago with The Civil War, a massively popular multi-part nonfiction series on PBS.His latest effort…
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The American Revolution – Premieres Nov. 16 – PBS
About the Film Thirteen American colonies unite in rebellion, win an eight-year war to secure their independence, and establish a new form of government that would inspire democratic movements at home and around the globe. What begins as a political clash between colonists and the British government grows into a bloody struggle that will engage…
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Hemingway Exhibition – PBS Books
Editor’s Note: Books and images from Hemingway’s life and works are shown in the PBS Exhibition. It’s done in conjunction with the new Burns’ documentary, “Hemingway.” Corporate funding for HEMINGWAY was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and by ‘The Better Angels Society,’…
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Hemingway: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick interview on how #MeToo changed their PBS docuseries.
The co-directors explain how the literary icon embodied both toxic masculinity and gender fluidity. Ernest Hemingway. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. By Abigail Covington, April 07, 202110:00 PM Ken Burns and Lynn Novick started working on their new docuseries about Ernest…
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Ken Burns’ ‘Hemingway’ documents the novelist and his life | The Kansas City Star
By Steve Paul Special to The Star, April 04, 2021 05:00 AM, Updated April 04, 2021 08:44 AM Three and a half decades ago, the earth moved beneath the foundation of the Ernest Hemingway industry. The old-school, tired image of the great American writer as a brawling, blustery simpleton took a self-inflicted punch in the…
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Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration – The New York Times
Ken Burns’s latest documentary, premiering Monday on PBS, traces the complicated connections between the person, the persona and the stories By James Poniewozik, Published April 2, 2021, Updated April 3, 2021, 12:16 a.m. Hemingway, NYT Critic’s Pick One of the more unsettling moments in “Hemingway,” the latest documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, finds…
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‘Hemingway’ Review: Ken Burns’ Series Dives Into The Writer’s Complicated Life : NPR
Ken Burns’ three-part documentary about American writer Ernest Hemingway (shown above) premieres on PBS April 5. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images March 30, 20212:22 PM ET, Heard on Fresh Air A three-part PBS documentary probes deeply into Ernest Hemingway’s life and his writings. Among those featured are each of his four wives, who shed light on the…
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The Man Behind the Hemingway Myth – WSJ
A new PBS documentary offers a fresh look at a great and tragic writer who disappeared into a self-created macho stereotype Early next month, timed to the sixtieth anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s death, PBS will air Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s long-awaited three-part, six-hour look at this most iconic of iconic American writers. In a…
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Readers and Writers: Love him or loathe him, there’s something in PBS’ ‘Hemingway’ for all readers
Wherever you come down on this continuum about one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, PBS will challenge or confirm your beliefs with “Hemingway,” a three-part, six-hour Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary series airing April 5-7. … The all-star cast of voice actors includes musician and playwright Jeff Daniels as Hemingway and…
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‘Lucky for him he could write’: Ken Burns takes on Ernest Hemingway
Too white, too male, too privileged – and according to some critics, that’s just one of the co-directors. A new PBS documentary on an American giant sails in stormy waters… “In some ways this is [our] most adult film,” Burns said. “I don’t mean that in any rating way. I mean that in how complicated…
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A student asked Ken Burns what to do in Trump’s America. He gave her this advice. – The Washington Post
#resistance #engagement #citizen //www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/61c3a7de-2dad-11e6-b9d5-3c3063f8332c “Just go forward. Engage. Don’t despair. Find likeminded people — not from your social circle, but everywhere. Change the opinions of others, not with ridicule, but reason. Finally, remember too that Barack Obama himself has said that the highest office in the land is not president, but citizen.” Source: A student…
