Sunday, June 12, 2011

Nerd Notes: A History Prof Ponders Ken Burns and the Civil War

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1 comment:

Michael Turton said...

Excellent piece. I just read _Jesse James: the Last Rebel of the Civil War_ which discusses the postwar ethnic cleansing.

Burns is influenced by Foote, who recently said in an interview that he'd have fought on the side of the South if he had lived then. Ugh.