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Telling History vs. Making Art: Communicating “the incommunicable experience of war”
Part seven in a series “We have shared the incommunicable experience of war,” Oliver Wendell Holmes says at the beginning of Ken Burns’ documentary The Civil War. Burns could not have picked a more appropriate quote to start his film … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory
Tagged Geoffrey C. Ward, History-vs-Art, Ken Burns, Shelby Foote, The Civil War
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