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Ric Burns and the Civil War

September 10, 2012 by Scott Timberg

IT’S not a pretty picture: The Civil War saw as many people killed as all American wars put together. In some places, the proportion of  young men killed was quite high: Parts of the South essentially lost a generation.

But the huge number of deaths, and the need to count the fallen, bury them, contact loved ones — and to make moral/ spiritual sense of it all — remade this country, says Ric Burns, whose documentary, Death and the Civil War, goes up next week on PBS’s American Experience.

He’s working from a book by historian Drew Gilpin Faust called This Republic of Suffering, which is a model of accessible but rigorous history.

Read about the doc is my LA Times story here.

I liked Ric a lot and found him quite passionate about his subject in an unforced way.

Filed Under: Civil War, history, television, The South

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