Nov. 17, 2025 . Clay Waters

PBS omnipresence Ken Burn’s six-part, 12-hour series “The Revolutionary War” launched Sunday evening and will air through November 21. Sympathetic journalists were eager to see parallels of the colonists fight for independence and Trump’s opponents rebelling against an authoritarian leader. Journalists like the New York Times’ James Poniewozik:

Over its 12 hours, “The American Revolution” takes two parallel tracks: the stories of white leaders who would eventually appear on dollar bills and in portrait galleries, and those of Americans of color, who were often used as pawns or had to choose which side of the war offered them the best chance at autonomy.

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