Ken Burns

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Ken Burns Discusses his New Series "The American Revolution" · 14 Nov 2025 podcast

that we're the patriots are killing and uh civilians and and and uh and vice versa uh maybe have a chance to go back and be healed to put i hope the us back in the us uh and maybe the divisions are a mile wide but only an inch thick

I really urge your listeners and you to watch this six-part, 12-hour series, because I think it will arm you with an important set of facts.

Not opinions, not reactions, but facts about what the United States... There's a wonderful... We follow, as I was saying, scores of people that I'd never heard of, and I'm pretty sure you've never heard of either.

about it.

And the wife of German officers, there's a German soldier, Johann Ewald, don't mean to pick on the Germans, who's openly contemptuous throughout the film about the rebels, as the Brits and the Germans call the patriots.

And yet he's in the surrendering army at Yorktown.

And he said, who would have thought 100 years ago that out of this multitude of rabble,

could arise of people who could defy kings.

I'm totally focused on the moment of the revolution where we were most definitely defying.

I mean, the odds at Lexington Green were zero of success of this new idea.

And the loyalists aren't enemies in our film.

They're people who say, look,

All of my health, my prosperity, the land I own, my family had spent a thousand years working as dependents on somebody else's land in Wales and England and Scotland and Ireland.

And now I've owned some land.

Why would I throw this away for this untested idea?

But a lot of people did.

And it turned out to be a pretty good experiment.

And I think by going back and gathering the threads of all the complexity, democracy was not the object of the revolution.

It was a consequence of it.

These guys were forming an elite, as people would complain today, of a small-R Republican experiment.

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