television

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• SOURCE: Fstoppers
  7/14/19
  

  Watching 'Chernobyl': How Important Are Visuals for Understanding History?

  For those struggling to put the facts and visuals together, documentary photography accompanied with words can be a godsend. 

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• 7/14/19
  

  HBO’s Chernobyl and the Rendering of History

  by Walter G. Moss

  The value of HBO’s Chernobyl is not just what it tells us about the failings of the Soviet system. It offers much more.

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• 5/23/19
  

  The Fall of Communism in TV’s The Weissensee Saga

  by Walter G. Moss

  The most impressive educational aspect of The Weissensee Saga is that it presents a realistic and convincing portrait of the differing lives and reactions of East German individuals in the final decade of the GDR’s existence.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4/6/19
  

  Grassley sarcastically hails History Channel for playing history

  The History Channel aired the fourth part of a six-hour docuseries called "The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen," a historical look at pioneers such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett as well as explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the Native American Shawnee chief Tecumseh.

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• SOURCE: Independent
  1/18/19
  

  Historian's new TV series tears apart America's revered founding myths

  Lucy Worsley presents American History’s Biggest Fibs.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  3-23-18
  

  How Early Warnings About the Effect of Television on American Politics Came True

  by David Kaiser

  In 1958, Edward R. Murrow, the great newsman, warned that television threatened the nation’s survival because it was using its power to distract the citizenry from painful realities.