{"id":733,"date":"2012-09-10T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/09\/ric-burns-and-the-civil-war.html"},"modified":"2012-09-10T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T17:28:00","slug":"ric-burns-and-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/09\/ric-burns-and-the-civil-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Ric Burns and the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT&#8217;S not a pretty picture: The Civil War saw as many people killed as <i>all<\/i> American wars put together. In some places, the proportion of \u00a0young men killed was quite high:\u00a0Parts of the South essentially lost a generation. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8E7KIHm5c0g\/UE4xHwgTBUI\/AAAAAAAABvY\/CKsAzryqGYA\/s1600\/Battle_of_Gettysburg,_by_Currier_and_Ives.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-8E7KIHm5c0g\/UE4xHwgTBUI\/AAAAAAAABvY\/CKsAzryqGYA\/s1600\/Battle_of_Gettysburg,_by_Currier_and_Ives.png\"><\/a>But the huge number of deaths, and the need to count the fallen, bury them, contact loved ones &#8212; and to make moral\/ spiritual sense of it all &#8212;\u00a0remade this country, says Ric Burns, whose documentary, <i>Death and the Civil War<\/i>, goes up next week on PBS&#8217;s American Experience.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s working from a book by historian Drew Gilpin Faust called <i>This Republic of Suffering<\/i>, which is a model of accessible but rigorous history.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the doc is my LA Times story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/tv\/showtracker\/la-et-st-ric-burns-civil-war-20120909,0,4213661.story\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I liked Ric a lot and found him quite passionate about his subject in an unforced way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&#8217;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 \u00a0young men killed was quite high:\u00a0Parts of the South essentially lost a generation. But the huge number of deaths, and the need to count the fallen, bury them, contact loved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116,96,77,72],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war","7":"category-history","8":"category-television","9":"category-the-south","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}