their documentary "best of enemies," about the televised debates between william f buckley and gore vidal. murray kennedy on her film about the final days of the vietnam war. and the documentary "the square," which portrays events in the streets of egypt during the 2011 revolution. announcer: monday night, martin luther king jr. day shows the british national debate. at 6:30 p.m. wisconsin professor william b jones talks about jobs, freedom and the forgotten history of civil rights. everybody said, you better get martin luther king. the march is not just about equal access to jobs, winning employment, it is also about equal rights. announcer: and the second part of an illustrated and tatian. 2:00 p.m., and international history professor part -- onold war iranians cold war partnership with the united states. tags the imperial ambitions of britain and russia, in the 1930's a headed to germany to play that role and after the second world war, a whole generation played. no history at of colonialism in the region. a 1963er: at 8:00, interview with the reverend martin luther king jr. on his no

their documentary "best of enemies," about the televised debates between william f buckley and gore vidalrray kennedy on her film about the final days of the vietnam war. and the documentary "the square," which portrays events in the streets of egypt during the 2011 revolution.

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gore vidal said that american history was short but it was so dramatic, so colorful, that you have toork hard to make it boring. i fear that is what some of our schools have done. whenever broadway or hollywood delves into american history, they start out with an unspoken assumption that it is pretty boring. they feel they have to spice it up with sex or violence, or nudity, and profanity to disguise an underlying tedium. lin manuel miranda has done the impossible, made american history hip, cool at once. instead of talking down to his audience, he shows that if you have true talent you can lift the audience up to a higher level of intelligence without sacrificing entertainment value. in the six years that i have known lin and worked with him, i knew that he knew the life of alexander hamilton was so dramatic -- that the best strategy for the show was to stick closely to the facts. capture the reality rather than circumvent it. that is what he has done. too americans are stranger to their own history. american history has laid a banquet of riches, and these poor fools are starving. th