The Dallas businessman who won President Biden’s highest honor for the arts
He created the Mark Twain Prize and inspired Ken Burns. On Biden’s final full day in office, Cappy McGarr got the honor of a ...
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Ken Burns
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for ... The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War ...
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'American Revolution' is a new Ken Burns documentary coming out this year. Here's when
Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the American Revolution. It will air for six consecutive nights and will ...
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Ken Burns Returns to PBS with New Documentary 'The American Revolution'
An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...
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Seventieth Birthday Speech
The 70 th birthday of Mark Twain was a lavish affair held at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City. In introducing Twain, friend William Dean Howells said, “Now, ladies and gentlemen ...
‘Dean of American Historians’: Ken Burns on William E. Leuchtenburg
One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, ...
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Ken Burns didn’t mean to be your history education: A Dallas visit with the doc master
If you watched all of Ken Burns’ documentaries ... founder of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. “The idea for the country music documentary was born in Cappy ...
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Filmmaker Ken Burns to share early look at his new documentary in Lexington and Concord
Filmmaker Ken Burns is visiting Lexington and Concord this spring to discuss his new documentary, "The American Revolution," according to a press release. The event is part of the Lex250 ...
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Ken Burns: ‘We are forgetting about our history, that includes the holocaust.’
As one of America’s most renowned story tellers who has made a name chronicling this nation’s past, the good, great, the bad and the truly terrible, Ken Burns does not buy one accepted truth a ...