Given our current political climate and the amplifying — not to mention polarizing — effects of social media, Americans today hear much about what divides us. Perhaps a new documentary miniseries might broaden our horizons and allow families to focus instead on what unites us.
The American Revolution, a six-part miniseries by Ken Burns that airs beginning this Sunday, should remind us that our country’s creation, let alone its survival, was by no means certain. The Revolutionary War was in many ways a civil war, with only part of the American colonists desiring a split from Great Britain, another portion remaining loyal to King George III, and a third group ambivalent, but not necessarily indifferent, waiting to see how it would all play out.
