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Holocaust comparisons are frequent in US politics – and reflect a shallow understanding of the actual genocide and the US response

Robert Keith Packer, a 57-year-old Virginian, achieved a measure of infamy at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when he was photographed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones along with the words “Camp Auschwitz.” “Work Brings Freedom,” the front said, a translation of the notorious motto “Arbeit macht…

The Conversation

Melinda Henneberger: Ken Burns Holocaust documentary makes it harder to kid ourselves about U.S. culpability

Those who think we should tell only happy stories about America will not want to watch the new PBS Ken Burns documentary, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.”

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Ken Burns, Lynn Novick: How Closed Borders Helped Facilitate the Holocaust

A new PBS series underscores the long, deadly shadow cast by xenophobia, antisemitism, and restrictive immigration laws.

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Ken Burns on "the toughest questions"

The documentarian opens up about the "obligation to make things better" in the s4 premiere of "Everything Fab Four"

Salon

Ken Burns: ‘We’re in perhaps the most difficult crisis in the history of America’

In a new docuseries, the film-maker looks back to the Holocaust and US apathy to make links toward where we are right now

The Guardian - US

Ken Burns makes the Holocaust personal

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein show us how America's antisemitism delayed our entry into World War II

Salon

Ken Burns’ new documentary reveals painful truths about ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

DALLAS — Eva Schloss is no stranger to Dallas. As a Holocaust survivor willing to share her harrowing life story, she appeared in Richardson as recently as three years ago. In 2002, she flew in from London to see a play about her life, "And Then They Came for Me,"…

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Tucker Carlson backs DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard migrant planes: ‘It doesn’t look that bad’

On Thursday, the filmmaker Burns had said DeSantis’ actions were coming straight from the ‘authoritarian playbook’ and was treating human lives as ‘political pawns’

The Independent UK

How Closed Borders Helped Facilitate the Holocaust

A new PBS series by Ken Burns argues xenophobia, the Great Depression, incredulity toward the media, and State Department antisemitism combined to keep Jewish refugees out of America.

Reason

What we're watching: 'Atlanta' opens its final season with even stranger things

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TV Tinsel: Marlyne Barrett never thought she'd be a nurse, but that was before 'Chicago Med'

Actress Marlyne Barrett, who plays the charge nurse on “Chicago Med,” violates the old joke about not being a doctor but playing one on TV.

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‘I’m a roads scholar!’ Marty Stuart’s five decades at the country university

Since joining his first band aged 12, Stuart has played with the likes of Johnny Cash and the Byrds and is now building a country music museum. He explains the roots of his lifelong passion

The Guardian - UK

David McCullough: Master chronicler of American history

The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer turned out hugely popular tomes during his 50-year career, writing about his nation’s ‘good and the bad, the high accomplishments and the skulduggery’

The Independent UK

David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89

Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian, his fatherly baritone known to fans of PBS’s “The American Experience” and Ken Burns’ epic “Civil War” documentary

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The Independent UK

David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died

Axios

Ken Burns interview: Holocaust series on PBS speaks to today's America

"I will not work on a more important film," Burns said during a half-hour phone interview.

Tribune News Service

TV Tinsel: Here they are, my 10 favorite TV shows of all time

Every year when the Emmy nominations are announced they bring to mind not only the worthy shows of this year but those of the past. As a TV critic, one has to view the good, the bad, and the ugly. But occasionally you stumble on something great. And when that…

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Vahe Gregorian: On Buck O’Neil’s HOF induction at last: ‘His spirit is going to fill up the valley’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Quite belatedly, Buck O’Neil on Sunday will be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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Heidi Stevens: 'I was not allowed a voice.' Youth mental health documentary arrives at perfect, urgent time

Erik Ewers, co-director of the new Ken Burns documentary “Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness,” had an epiphany while he was filming.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Teaching history: On the US, the Holocaust and the enduring lessons of the past

At a panel discussion at the Holocaust museum in New York this week for his forthcoming film, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” Ken Burns said that instead of the planned 2023 debut, he intentionally moved up the six-hour PBS broadcast date of the documentary, which has been in the works…

Salon

Ben Franklin, pop culture darling

The founding father who keeps popping up (but was cut from “Hamilton”) is arguably our true national treasure

Salon

Ken Burns on the flawed Ben Franklin

PBS' two-part documentary shows our country's most relatable Founding Father – statesman, inventor ... rascal

Los Angeles Times

Ben Franklin was the most famous American of his era. Ken Burns' new doc shows why

If we are reckoning by money, Benjamin Franklin — the man on the $100 bill — is 20 times as important as Abraham Lincoln, 100 times as important as George Washington and 10 times as important as Alexander Hamilton, notwithstanding "Hamilton." This is bad math, of course, because there is…

Axios

Exclusive interview: Ken Burns previews new Ben Franklin documentary

"He is an arc. ... And his greatest invention is himself."

The Independent UK

New this week: Camila Cabello, Tony Hawk and 'Tokyo Vice'

This week’s new entertainment releases include Camila Cabello's third album, a documentary about the life of professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, and Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe starring in “Tokyo Vice,” a HBO Max crime drama

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