Debate over Ken Burns Civil War doc continues over decades
Ken Burns
NEW YORK (AP) â From the time it aired nearly 30 years ago  Ken Burns' Civil War documentary has been a popular sensation and subject of debate.
"I don't know that I'm going to get into debating the Civil War  but I do know that many historians  including Shelby Foote in  Ken Burns' famous Civil War documentary   agree that a failure to compromise was a cause of the Civil War " Sanders said. "There are a lot of historians that think that."
Burns himself challenged Sanders' interpretation on Twitter. He wrote that "Many factors contributed to the Civil War. One caused it: slavery." He noted that  the documentary  ends with commentary from Barbara Fields  a revered scholar of slavery and the Civil War  who says "the Civil War is still going on. It's still to be fought and regrettably it can still be lost."
"Ken Burns always looks for varied voices and he always looks for characters  and Shelby Foote was certainly a character " Holzer says. "The most amazing thing he said was that the two great geniuses of the war were Lincoln and (Confederate Gen.) Nathan Bedford Forrest. Foote somehow compared the great emancipator with a man who owned slaves  murdered blacks and joined the Ku Klux Klan. " The documentary inspired enough discussion to become a book  "Ken Burns' The Civil War: Historians Respond " a 1995 publication featuring contributions by such leading scholars as C. Vann Woodward and Eric Foner and responses from Burns and Ward.
NEW YORK (AP) â From the time it aired nearly 30 years ago   [TGT]  Civil War documentary has been a popular sensation and subject of debate.
"I don't know that I'm going to get into debating the Civil War  but I do know that many historians  including Shelby Foote in   [TGT]  famous Civil War documentary   agree that a failure to compromise was a cause of the Civil War " Sanders said. "There are a lot of historians that think that."
Burns himself challenged Sanders' interpretation on Twitter. He wrote that "Many factors contributed to the Civil War. One caused it: slavery." He noted that   [TGT] ends with commentary from Barbara Fields  a revered scholar of slavery and the Civil War  who says "the Civil War is still going on. It's still to be fought and regrettably it can still be lost."
"Ken Burns always looks for varied voices and he always looks for characters  and Shelby Foote was certainly a character " Holzer says. "The most amazing thing he said was that the two great geniuses of the war were Lincoln and (Confederate Gen.) Nathan Bedford Forrest. Foote somehow compared the great emancipator with a man who owned slaves  murdered blacks and joined the Ku Klux Klan. "  [TGT]  inspired enough discussion to become a book  "Ken Burns' The Civil War: Historians Respond " a 1995 publication featuring contributions by such leading scholars as C. Vann Woodward and Eric Foner and responses from Burns and Ward.