Sparks Commentary

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despot...

Back in 2001, Ken Burns released a television history of  jazz music . I was a big fan of that series when it first came out. I never imag...

Budgets are the bane of documentary filmmakers, as well as their biggest constraint I’ve watched a few films by Elizabeth Deane, who has mad...

“Whereupon the Citty and Fort Amsterdam and Province of the New Netherlands were surrendered under His Most Exct. Mat’s. Obedience, made and...

Note: This is a collection of several BBC documentaries about World War II. That is to say, it is not a unified history like  “The World at ...

During the  Dark Ages , there were a number of invasions of what is today  “England.”  Some of them were before the state of  England  was c...

When I was in high school, I got into a documentary for the first time in my life. The first documentary that I got into was  Ken Burns’ “...

“♪ Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad. Just to root for the home town crew, Ev'ry sou Katie blew. ♪ ♪ On...

Note: This is a different series from  “Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire” (which is made by the BBC). There aren't too m...

"God save our gracious King! Long live our noble King! God save the King ! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to rei...

" ... these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; that they are absolved from all allegiance ...

"Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarc...

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely...

"He who ignores the lessons of history is doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana Soviets' first atomic bomb test, 19...

"That the two Kingdoms of  England and Scotland  shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundre...

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continu...

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of th...

"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin Nevile Henderson handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we hear...

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