Should You Watch Ken Burns's Civil War Documentary? (Part 3)
I've always thought that Barbara Fields was the real star of this film.
Check out Parts 1 and 2 in the series.
Update: Click here for the outtakes from Barbara Fields’s interviews for The Civil War.
In 1990 the story of emancipation and the complex chain of events that led to the end of slavery were located at the periphery of the nation’s collective memory of the Civil war. For many white Americans, their understanding of em…
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