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Ken Burns CONNECTS the American Revolution to Today’s CHAOS

2026-04-12 Entertainment
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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz  continue the conversation with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about his PBS series on the American Revolution, on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin--and Abraham Lincoln--and how every generation reinterprets the American Revolution down to today. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920

Top Comments (10)

@wsb4586 2026-04-12

Another library, Burns is US gold. Would love to see his quilt collection. Jimmy Carter described not a melting pot but a mosaic with each new culture contributing. Spot on.

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@rundoetx 2026-04-12

I can listen to Ken Burns all day long. He is an American icon.

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@planet617 2026-04-12

Both sessions you did with Ken Burns should be required viewing for everyone in this country!

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@HeatherFitzgibbon 2026-04-12

I just finished a novel by Stephanie Dray about Alexander Hamilton's wife, Elisabeth Schuyler, and it REALLY HIT HOME about some of the Founding Fathers nearly being as despicable as the Orange Mussolini and his Regime. It's amazing that the country survived the first 50 years. These men did NOT always get along or even like each other! Having affairs and illegitimate children was still just a way of life!

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@SoleJust-t5k7u 2026-04-12

I have been screaming, trying to sound the alarm since 2015. It was not possible for most to grasp and accept the reality then, but now, after witnessing all the utter, savage, and blatant destruction, could we accept reality? The goal, the purpose of all this insanity and savagery, is the absolute desecration of the U.S. government and this country.  And this insanity, the foolishness of this war, is the next stage of that plot to debilitate and eviscerate the U.S. military. And.. to completely desecrate the U.S. economy. The utter frailty, naiveté, and absence of imagination of our governing system have allowed Putin's unattainable fantasy, his 25-year sinister plot, to be realized by using this imbecilic, malignant farce, a foreign operative, to decimate the USA piece by piece. We must remove this parasitic virus, this treasonous lunetic from office while there is still a chance to save the country and our freedom.

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@AliceLind-h8b 2026-04-12

As long as a practice makes too much money, it keeps being practiced.

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@dlcs1406 2026-04-13

Ken Burns's Works should be shown in public schools instead of the whitewashed crap we were taught! I was exposed to California history in Grammar School. Dad taught me the bloody truth!

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@usersuser2026 2026-04-13

After watching Burns documentaries, and experiencing the last 15 months, I regard the Founding Fathers as more of a committee not really hitting the mark. The biggest error was not embracing a Parliament. Our system has some major flaws regarding the ejection of tyranny, mental illness, and incompetence. The concept of immunity is way too broad, as well. Also, pardons need to be much more restricted.

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@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively 2026-04-12

Bravo Hungaraians!!! 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺

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@dlcs1406 2026-04-13

My grandmother spoke a Northeast Canada Native tongue, French, Cajun, Meshica, Spanish and English. We are not stupid, donald!

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