Ken Burns on America's origin story: "The most important event since the birth of Christ"

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...
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How a young Jefferson’s plea to the King helped ignite America’s fight for independence

In the summer of 1774, as news of British actions against Boston reached Virginia, Thomas Jefferson retreated to his mountaintop villa of Monticello and began writing a secret document that could have ...