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"The Making of the American Revolution"

Last night, I finished watching a 2-hour PBS documentary, "The Making of the American Revolution," which detailed the making of the six-part, 12-hour documentary series about the American Revolution.

The series, written by historian Geoffrey Ward and directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, took almost ten years to make, involving thousands of man-hours accumulating first-person accounts (diaries), artwork and portraits, and maps from the period. Additionally, more than 200 hours of video footage on historical reenactments and the terrain where many of the battles took place along with drone footage and mapping animation were all edited into the final series.

As a person with a keen interest in history, particularly the American Revolution and the Civil War, I watched "The American Revolution" series when it first came out last year. Despite the complaints by some about bias in the making of the series, I found the series and the subsequent release of "The Making of the American Revolution" very compelling.

I was going to include a personal PSA about the apparent and appalling direction our country is taking currently, but ... oh wait, sorry.

I will encourage both "The Making of the American Revolution" and the series, "The American Revolution." Both are fascinating, and worth your time.