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Film, Video Death & the Civil War: Drew Gilpin Faust & Ric Burns

Event video

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About this Item

Title

  • Death & the Civil War: Drew Gilpin Faust & Ric Burns

Summary

  • In conjunction with the landmark exhibit The Civil War in America, the Library presented Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust in conversation with filmmaker Ric Burns for this commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced the event, which explored how death in the Civil War permanently transformed the character of American society. The program featured a clip from the PBS documentary "Death and the Civil War," produced by Burns and based upon Faust's book "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War." Excerpt from "Death and the Civil War," written & directed by Ric Burns, used by permission of Steeplechase Films. A Steeplechase Films production for American Experience, a production of WGBH, which is solely responsible for its content. (C) 2012 WGBH Educational Foundation and Steeplechase Films Inc., all rights reserved.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Music Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-02-27.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  War, Military

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Military Science.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Drew Gilpin Faust, Ric Burns.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-02-27.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689043

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Death & the Civil War: Drew Gilpin Faust & Ric Burns. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-27, 2013. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021689043/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Music Division, S. B. (2013) Death & the Civil War: Drew Gilpin Faust & Ric Burns. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-27. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021689043/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Death & the Civil War: Drew Gilpin Faust & Ric Burns. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-27, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021689043/>.