Connections With Evan Dawson

A highly anticipated documentary series launches on PBS this weekend. Ken Burns' "The American Revolution: An Intimate History" is a six-part series about the men and women who fought and lived through the war for America's independence. This hour, we're joined by filmmaker David Schmidt and local history professors to preview the series and to discuss what we can learn — and what we get wrong — about the Revolutionary War. Our guests: David Schmidt, co-director of "The American Revolution” Michael Jarvis, Ph.D., professor of early American, Atlantic, and digital history and archeology at University of Rochester Paul B. Moyer, Ph.D., professor of history at SUNY Brockport Sponsored ByCorporate funding for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by The Better Angels Society and its members Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine with the Crimson Lion Foundation; and the Blavatnik Family Foundation. Major funding was also provided by David M. Rubenstein; The Robert D. and Patrici