Lynn Novick

In promoting healing instead of a search for truth, “The Vietnam War” offers misleading comforts.

With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever.

Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

On "The Vietnam War."

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

The PBS series by Burns focuses on soldiers' stories, with scant attention to the immense number of Vietnamese civilians who suffered and died.

The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.

Burns and co-director Lynn Novick take a "many sides" approach to history at a time when "many sides" is a tool of obfuscation.

Watching Ken Burns' latest epic with a historian who has written extensively about the war.

The filmmaker wants ‘The Vietnam War’ to unite America. Can anyone do that under Trump?

Even in a fractious era, the filmmaker still believes that his documentaries can bring every viewer in.

Why rock overtook every other genre to define our understanding of America at war.

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.

A Vietnamese politician and an American academic led Michigan State University into a nation-building experiment and pulled America deeper into war.

Not only can we not shake the memories of Vietnam, but they still shape our foreign policy debates.

The modern historical profession's purpose has changed drastically in the past century.

The PBS documentary on America’s most futile conflict is missing one explosive document. Every president should absorb its chilling lessons.