Ken Burns & Sarah Botstein on Finding Hope in America’s Brutal Beginnings
Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein’s 12-hour documentary The American Revolution reframes the nation’s founding as a complex, violent, and deeply contradictory struggle—not a sanitized myth. The episode argues that confronting the full truth of the revolution, including its hypocrisies, is es
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