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• SOURCE: PBS
  Accessed 1/21/20
  

  Meet the Forgotten Chemist and His “Poison Squad,” Whose Fight Against Deadly Chemicals in Food Led to the Establishment of the FDA

  “The Poison Squad reminds us that our current concerns about food safety have a long history."

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• 1/5/19
  

  New PBS Documentary "McCarthy" Highlights a Tumultuous Time in Our History

  by Julia Brown

  Director Sharon Grimberg discusses her new documentary "McCarthy," premiering on American Experience January 6, 2020. 

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• 10/13/19
  

  RetroReport is Building a Living Library of Modern News Events

  by Kyla Sommers

  Learn about RetroReport on PBS with this interview with executive producer Kyra Darnton. 

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• 8/4/19
  

  Woodstock at 50: A Conversation with Award Winning Filmmaker Barak Goodman

  by Jonathan Montano

  Goodman's latest documentary, "Woodstock: Three Days That Changed a Generation," premieres on PBS August 6th. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  7/13/2019
  

  Film airing on PBS recalls city's dark deportation history

  The filming of "Bisbee '17," a documentary about what happened July 12, 1917, was a history lesson for residents recruited to play historical figures in the production filmed exactly 100 years later that weds documentary and collective performance.

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• SOURCE: AP
  4/27/19
  

  PBS film ‘KOREA’ eyes social, political tolls of Korean War

  The film, a production of WETA Washington, aired Monday and examines the lasting social and political costs of the Korean War.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  

  Why We Need a New Civil War Documentary

  by Keri Leigh Merritt

  The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.

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• SOURCE: PBS
  3/29/19
  

  Video of the Week: inside look at PBS's Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

  See how our past affects our present with this inside look of Reconstruction with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/2/19
  

  In Upcoming Documentary, Henry Louis Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction

  The 4-part documentary will air on PBS starting April 9th. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10-24-18
  

  The Results Are In…These Are America’s “Most-Beloved” Novels, Says PBS

  More than 4 million people voted, securing top honors for Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in the Great American Read initiative.

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• SOURCE: Press Release – PBS
  7-30-18
  

  PBS Announces RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, a New Documentary from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  It will air in the Spring of 2019 on PBS.

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• SOURCE: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
  11-14-17
  

  Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’ Averaged 6.7M Viewers For PBS, Reached 34M

  These ratings results mean The Vietnam War is the second-highest-rated Burns/Novick film of the past two decades, following The War in 2007.

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• 10-28-17
  

  Ken Burns's Gift to Conservatives

  by Leonard Steinhorn

  His documentary on Vietnam mocks the young who fought for social change.

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• 10-8-17
  

  Vietnam in the Rearview Mirror: Why Victory Was an Illusion

  by John Prados

  Ken Burns’s and Lynn Novick’s implicit “honor the troops” undertone makes this documentary a platform for the neo-orthodox culture war players.

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• 10-8-17
  

  The Creation of the Unprecedented PBS Series "The Vietnam War"

  An Interview with Co-Director Lynn Novick

  by Robin Lindley

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  10-3-17
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman asks: What’s So Bad About Ken Burns?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  There’s one big reason that academic historians turn up their noses at his popular documentaries: sour grapes.

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• 10-1-17
  

  What Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Want Us to Believe Is that Americans Were Innocents in Vietnam

  by Ron Briley

  We weren’t and our history of imperialism proves it.

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• 9-29-17
  

  What’s Missing From the Vietnam War Documentary?

  by Jeffrey P. Kimball

  Why the US waged war in Vietnam.

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• Ken Burns’s War Stories

  by Bob Buzzanco

  He’s more storyteller than historian and that weakens his series considerably.

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• SOURCE: PBS
  9-6-17 (accessed)
  

  How ‘The Vietnam War’ Surprised Co-Director Lynn Novick

  “So much of what I thought I knew just turned out not to be correct,” says Novick.