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hi Pat B... there's no doubt Ken Burn's is a great documentary maker
I've had a fairly solid couple of months watching both the West series and his other series on the Civil War both of which have proven to be eye openners in providing a sense of the reality. I hope you get to see the series... in all honesty I even found the openning of sequence of each program moving (great sweeping panoramas accompanied by an Indian chant).
posted by
robdon67
on September 26, 2006 at 12:36 PM
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I missed this Ken Burns documentary
and now I've really got to see it. Thanks for your informative blog.
About 15 years ago I was shocked and disappointed to learn that our school-based history lessons were sanitized and spun since the founding fathers were in charge. Much of what we were taught about America's history, as a model of democracy and personal freedom, is the dark and sinister opposite. At one time I went to Arizona to research background for a novel. Much of it had been was based on the Hollywood version of western life. Was I in for a shock! That's when I discovered the U.S. soldiers who pursued Geronimo into old Mexico and spent six months or more on the hunt had been the "Buffalo Soldiers." These troops were mostly former African slaves who had joined the Union Army during the Civil War. But the photos of the captured chief in the history books showed only the officers, the whites, which I felt was deliberately misleading. For weeks after my research trip to Arizona, I was furious that our teachers had neglected to give us the truth, and since then have found this was the tip of the iceberg.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 26, 2006 at 7:05 AM
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Hi Charice
I guess it comes down to the fact that human nature is a bit of a predictable constant.
posted by
robdon67
on September 24, 2006 at 2:17 PM
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LLM..
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posted by
robdon67
on September 24, 2006 at 2:16 PM
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Rob...
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on September 24, 2006 at 7:39 AM
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Its funny how history repeats itself.
posted by
charice
on September 24, 2006 at 7:09 AM
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