Happy Birthday, Burns.

Documentarian and historian Ken Burns was born on this date in 1953.

Ken Burns' canon is extensive. To list a few of my favorites ...

Lewis & Clark.

Jefferson.

Twain.

Baseball.

Jazz.

The Shakers.

The National Parks.

The West.

World War II.

It was the The Civil War that introduced me to Ken Burns when it debuted on PBS in the fall of 1990.

Burns' work superbly relays the cultural fondations, the romance of accomplishment, and the wonder of daily life in the everyday, human charcters that make history.

An excellent example of his work from The Civil War ...