Ken Burns

And the women at the table, they're interested in equality, perhaps even more than you are.

And this is the American promise, is that we're going to steadily expand this narrow thing.

When Jefferson wrote, all men are created equal, he meant all white men of property, free of debt.

We do not mean that now.

So let's tell each other's stories.

The novelist Richard Powers said, the best arguments in the world, and that's all we do,

won't change anybody's point of view.

The only thing that can do that is a good story.

So let's tell stories that reach to every middle-sex village and farm, that penetrate down to people who don't feel they've got a stake in any of this, that penetrate up to those people who think that they are born to a kind of privilege that should not exist in the United States, that goes out wide and says, yeah, we disagree, we voted for somebody different, but don't we share these things in common, right?

Nobody, when you go into the ballpark where you're about to sing the national anthem, anybody asks you who you voted for, what political party you're registered at.

So, call this a party.

I live in a tiny town in New Hampshire.

Everybody's from every possible political thing.

And we get along, right?

We have to figure out how to get along, you know?

The American Revolution changed the world.

It's not just about the birth of the United States.

It has ramifications across the globe.

So studying the American Revolution, understanding it, and putting it in a global context I think is vitally important for us to understand why we are where we are now.

Stephen Conway, The American Revolution.