Sharing the American experience
By: Ken Burns ; with an introduction by Dean Thomas W. Bohn.
Contributors: Roy H. Park School of Communications (Ithaca College)
Series: The Park distinguished visitors series -- Fall 2001
Publisher: Ithaca College
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Ithaca, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Documentary films -- United States.; History -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Race relations -- United States -- History.
Description: Text of speech by Burns as a visiting scholar with the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, describing his documentary work to that time as a means of teaching and preserving the history of the United States, particularly of his films on the Civil War, baseball, and jazz as documenting the progress of race relations in the United States.