{"id":2160324,"date":"2025-11-16T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2160324"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:56:34","slug":"the-american-revolution-review-in-divided-times-ken-burns-trumpets-a-unifying-dictum-no-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-american-revolution-review-in-divided-times-ken-burns-trumpets-a-unifying-dictum-no-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The American Revolution\u2019 Review: In Divided Times, Ken Burns Trumpets a Unifying Dictum: No Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two quotes from the historian Jane Kamensky<\/a> \u2014 one appearing in the first episode of \u201cThe American Revolution<\/a>\u201d and one in the last \u2014 exemplify so much of what\u2019s driving Ken Burns\u2019 new king-sized and king-skewering documentary. The first frames the final two hours of the 12-hour series, which encompass events from May 1780 through what the title simply refers to as \u201cOnward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think to believe in America, rooted in the American Revolution, is to believe in possibility,\u201d Kamensky<\/a> says. \u201cThat to me is the extraordinary thing about the patriots\u2019 side of the fight. I think everybody on every side \u2014 including people who were denied even the ownership of themselves \u2014 had the sense of possibility worth fighting for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burns\u2019 documentary venerates that possibility, not as an outdated idea but as a dream that took great effort to distinguish and that\u2019s prematurely fading from our cultural consciousness. The series recognizes the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two quotes from the historian Jane Kamensky \u2014 one appearing in the first episode of \u201cThe American Revolution\u201d and one in the last \u2014 exemplify so much of what\u2019s driving Ken Burns\u2019 new king-sized and king-skewering documentary. The first frames the final two hours of the 12-hour series, which encompass events from May 1780 through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2160325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2160324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018The-American-Revolution-Review-In-Divided-Times-Ken-Burns-Trumpets.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160326,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160324\/revisions\/2160326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}