THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt
A Special Preview Screening and Conversation with Historians Marla Miller & Alison Russell
Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
Time: 4 to 6 pm
Location: Northampton Arts Trust Flex Space at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA 01060
Time: 4 to 6 pm
Location: Northampton Arts Trust Flex Space at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA 01060
This event is Sold Out!
Pre-registration is required.
Sliding scale admission: $15-50.
Sliding scale admission: $15-50.
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A special preview of the new Ken Burns' documentary series THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION will be presented by NEPM, Historic Northampton, and Historic Deerfield.
Following the 30-minute screening, UMass Amherst historians Marla Miller and Alison Russell—both experts in the American Revolution and the role of Connecticut Valley families during this period—will provide remarks and answer questions from the audience. The conversation and Q & A will be moderated by historian Erika Gasser, director of academic programs at Historic Deerfield. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION is a new six-part, twelve-hour documentary series that explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence. The series will premiere on PBS on Sunday, November 16, 2025 and air for six consecutive nights through Friday, November 21st from 8-10 pm on NEPM. |
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION is a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington D.C. PBS Learning Media, working with WETA, and other partners will lead classroom outreach and develop digital resources and professional learning opportunities for educators and students in grades 3-12.
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Dr. Marla Miller is a prizewinning historian of U.S. women, work, and material culture and distinguished Professor of History at UMass Amherst. She is author of Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts (2019); Betsy Ross and the Making of America (2011); and The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (2006).
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Alison Russell is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at UMass Amherst and a former teacher of 7th- through 12th-grade history and government. Her fields of interest are Early America and Public History, with a special focus on legal and governmental documents and how their use by non-government officials has shaped the country’s understandings of identity and nationalism.
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Dr. Erika Gasser is Director of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, where she oversees the Summer Fellowship Program, the Deerfield-Wellesley Symposium, and other seasonal lectures and events. In addition, she teaches a course in the history and material culture of New England for Smith College and helps to organize Historic Deerfield’s participation in the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. She holds an M.A. in History and Ph.D. in History and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan.