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Source: The National Endowment for the Humanities

5-10-16 (accessed)

In defense of the humanities

by Ken Burns

In his 2016 Jefferson Lecture Ken Burns says "the humanities have been needlessly scapegoated in our country by those who continually benefit from division and obfuscation."

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In defense of the humanities

by Ken Burns