Ken Burns: The secret to bridging political divides

Posted on AllSides December 3rd, 2019
OPINION

The late historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. liked to say that we suffer today from too much "pluribus" and not enough "unum," meaning that we focus on what differentiates us rather than what unites us. More recently, I've looked at my work as existing in the figurative space between the two-letter, lower-case plural pronoun "us," and the upper-case abbreviation for our country -- US. In the documentaries I've made over the past 40 years, I have tried to magnify our shared experiences, even when they are hidden within our complicated and...

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