Civics 101

Lessons from the American Revolution (with Ken Burns)

Dienstag, 16. Juni 2026 · 47 min

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Ken Burns (kenburns.com/principals/ken-burns) and Sarah Botstein (kenburns.com/staff/sarah-botstein) spent nearly a decade making a twelve-hour documentary on the American Revolution (pbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/?gad_sour…). This is what they learned from the thousands of stories and events that resulted in the United States of America. It's a story of world-changing ideas, contradictory figures, myths that do us no good and what it means to be in pursuit of a more perfect union.

You can watch Ken Burns The American Revolution on PBS, PBS.org and the free PBS app.

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