Social History
Published: October 07, 2011 at 9:59 am
I received some good discussion on my last post. Some took me to task, others were supportive, and still others were non-committal. At issue was the notion of how much of history is an eye-of-the-beholder narrative and how much is—to …
Gene Santoro |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:35 am
In May 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto became a movie set. The SS filmed a combination of real scenes (crammed streets with tattered figures, corpses stretched along the edges) and staged scenes (wealthy Jews dining in sumptuous restaurants, shopping at well-stocked …
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:33 am
His last letter home before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:31 am
Long before any airplanes approached the sound barrier, John Stack was traveling there in his mind.
As a teenager he worked to save enough money for a few hours of flying lessons in a Canuck biplane at an airfield …
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: October 04, 2011 at 9:52 pm
The new PBS documentary 'The War of 1812' goes beyond the myths and the few well-known events of 'the war we don't know much about' to present a balanced, informative and engrossing program.
Jay Wertz |
Published: September 29, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns explores the Prohibition years in a new PBS special that begins Sunday.
Madhusree Mukerjee |
Published: September 29, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Churchill's friend and scientific adviser had the prime minister's full faith—even when he shouldn't have
Michael and Barbara Foster |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Adah Isaacs Menken, aka “The Naked Lady,” may have begun life as a poor girl from New Orleans, but with talent and courage she became THE outstanding actress during the era of America's Civil War.
Charles H. Lutz |
Published: August 24, 2011 at 11:00 am
How a Vietnam vet ended up working undercover for Nixon's secret plan to disrupt an antiwar rally in Washington
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 22, 2011 at 9:31 am
We've been discussing the accepted "narrative" of the war, the ways that we Americans have tended to interpret it. Others have their own "histories" of World War II, and they can vary wildly by era, by place, by perspective. To …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 12, 2011 at 10:11 am
Last week I wrote about Frank Capra and his incomparable Why We Fight series of wartime propaganda films. From our own perspective, it's easy to pick apart the details of Capra's vision. Some of the argumentation is simplistic, sure, the …
R.V. Lee |
Published: August 08, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Our Vietnam Generation is a documentary film containing oral histories of Michigan's Vietnam War veterans, as well as interviews with family members and academics. The DVD also contains a tour of today's Vietnam.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 05, 2011 at 10:02 am
Last week I spoke my piece about Edward R. Murrow and his I Can Hear it Now series. Ed's been dead a long time, but my hunch is that if he were alive, he wouldn't be doing a lot of …
Gene Santoro |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 11:01 am
In 1945, tens of millions of displaced persons, DPs, filled Germany and Western Europe. Many came from France, the Low Countries, and Italy, but most were Eastern Europeans. In The Long Road Home, historian Ben Shephard, who produced the documentary …
Peter Carlson |
Published: August 02, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Filmmaker Ken Burns talks about his latest project, a history of Prohibition, which airs on PBS in October 2011.
Jay Wertz |
Published: July 29, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Nearly 9,000 Civil War reenactors staged battle re-creations as part of the activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Manassas/Battle of Bull Run.
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