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How Does a Film Become Lost?

What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.
by Andrew Egan via Tedium on October 11, 2018
Marsha Johnson

Deconstructing the Stonewall Myth (Brick by Brick)

Why it's important to know that Marsha P. Johnson did not start the riots at Stonewall.
by R. E. Fulton via Nursing Clio on June 26, 2018

Did you know the CIA _____?

Errol Morris and the hot cold war.
by Malcolm Harris via n+1 on March 7, 2018

The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota

The Experimental City revisits the plan for a futuristic Minnesota city that would solve urban problems.
by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on January 2, 2018
Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."
by Christian G. Appy, Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017

The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll

The PBS series by Burns focuses on soldiers' stories, with scant attention to the immense number of Vietnamese civilians who suffered and died.
by Nick Turse via The Intercept on September 28, 2017
Stereograph titled 'The Toucans' depicting three toucans and a snake amid plants and rocks

Stereographs Were the Original Virtual Reality

The shocking power of immersing oneself in another world was all the buzz once before—about 150 years ago.
by Clive Thompson via Smithsonian Magazine on September 21, 2017
Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

‘The Vietnam War’: Past All Reason

The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on September 19, 2017
Ken Burns presenting about his Vietnam documentary.

The Insidious Ideology of Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War

Burns and co-director Lynn Novick take a "many sides" approach to history at a time when "many sides" is a tool of obfuscation.
by Alex Shepard via The New Republic on September 19, 2017
Orson Welles

A Hundred Years of Orson Welles

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on November 30, 2015
A distorted image of the the New York City skyline, showing the Twin Towers.

Footage of the Twin Towers Being Built (1976)

A film produced by Western Electric, a haunting glimpse into the construction of the Twin Towers in New York and their early use.
via The Public Domain Review on September 10, 2015
A depiction of the female reproduction system in an early sex ed film.

Slut-Shaming, Eugenics, and Donald Duck

The scandalous history of sex-ed movies.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 12, 2014

Black Is Beautiful: Why Black Dolls Matter

"Why do you have black dolls?"
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on February 21, 2013

American Pastoral

Reflections on the ahistorical, aristocratic, and romanticist approach to "nature" elevated by John Muir, and by his admirer, Ken Burns.
by Charles Petersen via n+1 on February 26, 2010
Pete Seeger.

American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on May 1, 2008

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