Prohibition and the Dust Bowl
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Yeah, I wish I'd already seen this - it was too hard to focus on both at the same time, and the doc won out. #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution #HATM

I LOVED Liberty's Kids, even though I was probably a little bit too old for it when I discovered it.
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I have a personal animosity toward Benjamin Franklin from reading his Autobiography in undergrad - he just came off as an arrogant jerk. #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution #HATM

We're watching on ETV (South Carolina PBS out of Columbia). #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution #HATM

Baseball, The War, Jazz, National Parks are all great; Civil War has some blinspots, but is still worth watching. Really dug Horatio's Drive (great one shot), and Brooklyn Bridge holds up. #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution #HATM

If y'all have burning questions during #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution I kindly suggest pulling up the PBS Learning Media website to get a peek at other episodes.

Lot of interesting what ifs here: if Washington dies, if he is captured again, if the British grant him a commission...why, we might find ourselves speaking English! #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution #HATM

My Irish ancestors came over later (during the Famine), though I'd be curious to have a better sense of my German and English ancestors (I have some distant Jewish ancestry that fled one of the pogroms, allegedly). #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution #HATM

For those BlueSky members who are watching the PBS Ken Burns American Revolution series, here is a history how smallpox affected both sides of the conflict.

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It seems to me that the sheer mix of cultures, nationalities, religions, and identities is a key component of how America happens: less long-running ethnic lines, lack of loyalty to existing power structures, and wide distance from the centers of authority. #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution #HATM

The Civil War was a huge event - I remember the teachers talking about it in elementary school (you got extra credit for staying up to watch it). #KenBurnsAmericanRevolution #HATM

Or in my case reading about Rome