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Follow up discussion from the earlier thread
3 posted on 09/22/2002 11:28:35 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
...historians questioned the documentary's themes, interpretations and conclusions even as they admit Burns' storytelling brilliance.

This is an inevitable as steam from a tea kettle when heat is applied. If no two people can witness the same accident without having different reports, no two historians will EVER agree completely. Their specializations alone would preclude this from happening. So my feeling is that, for non-professional-historians, this is indeed a tempest in a tea pot and I don't care except to see what new things come from it.

5 posted on 09/23/2002 6:00:45 AM PDT by SES1066
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