Ramtin Arablui

That's it for this week's episode of America in Pursuit, a limited series from NPR and 3LINE.

If you want to hear more about the role of the U.S.

Postal Service in the years after the American Revolution, check out the full-length ThruLine episode called, you guessed it, The Postal Service.

And make sure to join us next week when the American Revolutionaries start building the U.S.

government from the ground up.

The executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judiciary.

How the Supreme Court went from the least powerful branch of government to the powerful arbiter it is today.

Don't miss it.

This episode was produced by Kiana Moghadam and edited by Christina Kim, with help from the Thuline production team.

Music, as always, by me, Ramtin Arablui, and my band, Drop Electric.

Special thanks to Julie Kane, Irene Noguchi, Beth Donovan, Casey Miner, and Lindsay McKenna.

We're your hosts, Ramtin Arablui and Rand Abdel-Fattah.

As the U.S.

prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, it's worth looking back at where we started, the real story, the real people who forged the United States into existence, and the chaos, conflict, and compromise they lived through.

And who better to take that deep dive than this guy?

Ken Burns is one of my favorite filmmakers, and I still remember when I was first introduced to his work back in middle school when I watched his documentary on the Civil War.

After that, I was hooked.

We even got a chance to interview him on the show a few years back for another great documentary about country music.

And now, after watching this new film, I was eager to bring him back and talk to him about his latest documentary.

In our conversation, we talk about that intense and deeply divided period in U.S.