 "Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current)")
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Burns stuck to his vision
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Ken Burns is the Gutzon Borglum of documentary filmmakers. Borglum
was the master sculptor who carved Mount Rushmore out of the side of
a mountain, spending years chiseling away tens of thousands of tons
of rock. Burns, by contrast, pieces things together, delivering
projects that routinely run 10-hours plus. His latest creation is The
War, which, at 15 hours, isn't even his longest project (Jazz holds
that distinction at 18 hours), but it has proved to be his most
controversial. Months befor...
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; The cause and the course of the war in Iraq make it difficult for the American people to feel connected to it, a striking difference from the last world war, when the entire country was geared toward defeating the Japanese and defending Europe from the Nazis, several Santa Fe authors of books on
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The long First World War
Review - Institute of Public Affairs
; The long First World War John Roskam reviews The Great War by Les Carlyon (Macmillan Australia, 2006, 880 pages) History is usually about 'what happened next'. Events are important, not only because they happened, but because they lead to something else. And so it is with the First World War.
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PROJECT WOULD RECORD WORLD WAR II MEMORIES.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Time is running out to save the incredible stories that Washington's World War II veterans carry in their memories. ``Our numbers are rapidly dwindling said William Merifield of Olympia, who wants the state to record the veterans' stories. ``We need to work quickly, or many memories of the war that
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On the afterlives of the Second World War.(Book review)
CLIO
; Crises of Memory and the Second World War. By Susan Rubin Suleiman. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 286 pages. The War Complex: World War II in Our Time. By Marianna Torgovnick. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxi + 209 pages. The War in the Empty
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Journey's end; Remembrance Day.(The First World War industry)(public interest in World War I)
The Economist (US)
; Loss chiselled in stone The first world war is a flourishing industry, but the deaths of the last participants may change that MEMORY tends to fade as time passes; yet these days Remembrance Sunday is observed more strictly than it was two or three decades ago. As the last post sounds, silence
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Few, but not forgotten; Surviving WWI vet belongs to dwindling, elite rank Eighty years after the war's end, Minnesota's World War I veterans are being honored. Since many are too frail to travel, the American Legion is bringing the ceremony to them.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Eighty years ago today, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, peace was declared between the Allies and Germany in World War I. Ed Vandergon, 99, of Buffalo, is one of a shrinking group of Minnesotans who were in uniform that day. He also may be the only living Minnesota World
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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First World War 90th Anniversary: A citizens' war with complicated roots.(News)
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; Byline: Mike Love When the First World War began 90 years ago on August 4, 1914, most people thought it would be over by Christmas. They could not have imagined that what became known as 'The Great War' would leave an estimated ten million dead and sow the seeds for another, even more cataclysmic
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Fairfax Fauquier Libraries Plan World War II Series
The Washington Post
; More Fairfax County library patrons borrow books on World War II than any other nonfiction subject, according to officials at the county's public library system, which this month begins a yearlong series of lectures and documentary films on the war and its historical lessons. "The total number of
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Remembering World War I
Special Report with Brit Hume (Fox News Network)
; 00-00-0000 THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. HUME: To many Americans, the Second World War and the cold war are the defining military events of the 20th century, both waged for clear reasons against powers who posed a clear threat to American
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African-Americans fought racism on two fronts in World War II
Washington Afro-American
; Lenneal J. Henderson Washington Afro-American 05-06-1995 African-Americans fought racism on two fronts in World War II. Historian Theodore Ropp writes that, "World War II killed more persons, cost more money, damaged more property, affected more people, and probably caused more far reaching changes
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