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Lynn Novick
September 16, 2022
Michael Tomasky
“We Did Know”: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on
The U.S. and the Holocaust
The new documentary, which debuts Sunday on PBS, digs deep into what FDR and the American public did—and did not do—to stop the genocide.
Video is available for this article
May 13, 2021
Magazine
Win McCormack
The Undefeated
Ernest Hemingway’s one enduring character? Ernest Hemingway.
September 19, 2017
Alex Shephard
The Insidious Ideology of Ken Burns’s
The Vietnam War
Burns and co-director Lynn Novick take a "many sides" approach to history at a time when "many sides" is a tool of obfuscation.
October 3, 2011
Michael Kazin
What the Temperance Movement and the Anti-Abortion Movement Have in Common
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