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Ken Burns’ Leftist Legacy

Ken Burns’ Leftist Legacy

‘America’s storyteller’ puts a progressive spin on America’s stories.

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May 30, 2023
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Gettysburg College, located adjacent to the momentous Civil War battlefield, recently hosted a festival celebrating the films of documentary historian Ken Burns, whose own 1990 PBS series on the Civil War garnered more than 40 major film and TV awards and remains the highest rated and most celebrated documentary in public television’s history.

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