The American Revolution's Unfinished Promise

The Most Important Question · Nov 24, 2025 · 59m

If the American Revolution was, as Ken Burns put it, the biggest event since the birth of Christ, then there's probably never been a better time to explore and drastically expand on why it happened, who was involved, and what it set us up for than right now.

My guest today again is David Schmidt.

David is the producer and co-director, along with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, of American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour series premiering on PBS this November.

David is a childhood friend, but two decades after he and I played Nintendo in his basement, he began working with Florentine Films as a…