Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The American Revolution’ On PBS, A Ken Burns Docuseries Takes A Deep Dive Into The U.S.’s Fight For Independence

In the intervening decades, until the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 initiated the rebels’ battle against the British army, the rule of King George III brought an increasing number of taxes and other indignities to the colonists, and a significant number of people decided to fight back. Our Take: What Burns, Botstein and Schmidt set out to do with The American Revolution is to give the entire picture of the revolution, from the events that set the rebellion in motion in the 1750s to the wide-ranging affects that can even be seen 250 years later. Other aspects that are explored is the war’s affect on the Indigenous population inside the colonies and in the Ohio Valley region, as well as the enslaved population that was mostly in the colonies from Virginia on south.

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