The American Revolution

[Cipher]

Yes PBS a mighty counterweight and answer to the plaint: I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on · Got those swollen-hand blues · I've got thirteen channels of *@%^$*@%^$*@%^$*@%^$ on the T.V. to choose from.......

PBS is a national treasure. Nova, Frontline alone stand as sufficient atonement for the degenerate crap popular media has made and continues to make.

There is a series of vids by Burns explaining his methods. Interesting insight.

[LAB3]

Here's an eight minute run down on the series that was broadcast on a local PBS station earlier today. Yes, Peter Coyote is narrating.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5606359/ken-burns-american-revolution-review

[Buffalo Bill]

Looking like a pretty good series. Troops in the cities echos today. The class society is repulsive, another echo of today.

[salty_monk]

PBS is great... Some of it can be achieved with a VPN to the BBC but that's also under threat.

In this same sort of vein I read a good book recently.... Anyone who likes to read & likes this show might also like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon_of_Unrest

All his books are entertaining whilst also being educational....

[Rich82GS750TZ]

I have my DVR saving it so I can watch during some upcoming vacation time.

No spoilers, please, I want the ending to be a surprise.

[Buffalo Bill]

I've read a few books about the war, even a memoir of Washington's retreat from Brooklyn all the way up the Hudson.
This series is the first I heard they were also suffering a smallpox epidemic. omg…
A friend of mine when I lived in NYC 77-79, talked about how they drained the pond In Prospect Park and found cannon balls from the Battle of Long Island. Washington got outflanked.