ettysburg College, located adjacent to the momentous Civil War battlefield, recently hosted a festival celebrating the films of documentary historian Ken Burns, whose own 1990 PBS series on the Civil War garnered more than 40 major film and TV awards and remains the highest rated and most celebrated documentary in public television’s history.
Burns himself kicked off the film festival weekend with an event specifically designed for Gettysburg College students, according to a school news report.
The talk-and-film-clip presentation was tellingly titled “Activism and
Protest,” presumably because something along the lines of “Understanding
and Appreciating American History” didn’t sound sufficiently
politicized or sexy for a college crowd. ---More...