Tag Archives: The Civil War

Thoughts on Ken Burns’ The Civil War: Dan Davis

Posted on September 10, 2015 by

I know there has been a lot of discussion on this blog and others this week on the re-release of Ken Burns’ The Civil War. I know that the documentary means a lot of things to a lot of people, but I … Continue reading →

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Telling History vs. Making Art: “Story is a central component of ‘history'”

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

Part eight in a series The ability to evoke emotion easily stands out as The Civil War’s greatest strength: From its opening shot of a canon silhouetted against a fire-orange sky and the use of the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote … Continue reading →

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Telling History vs. Making Art: Communicating “the incommunicable experience of war”

Posted on November 6, 2012 by

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 →

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Telling History vs. Making Art: Killer Angels, real and fictional

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

Part five in a series. In my last post, I began to discuss Michael Shaara’s aesthetic choices for constructing The Killer Angels as he did, and how he adopted a Lost Cause-interpretation of Robert E. Lee as a central choice … Continue reading →

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Telling History vs. Making Art: The ways we remember the war

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

Part two in a series “We may say that only at the moment when Lee handed Grant his sword was the Confederacy born,” wrote Robert Penn Warren during the Civil War’s centennial; “or to state matters another way, in the … Continue reading →

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