He was killed a week later in the first battle of Bull Run, dying in a Civil War clash in Virginia hundreds of miles from his home. But it is no less affecting now than it was in 1990 when the Ken Burns series, “The Civil War,” became a cultural phenomenon. Sarah Sanders once invoked the documentary to defend a senior Trump official who’d claimed a “lack of an ability to compromise” caused the Civil War. Even Burns chimed in, tweeting, “Many factors contributed to the Civil War. ADADThis isn’t necessarily the case, and a prime example is the Civil War.

Source: Washington Post September 26, 2020 11:02 UTC