DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

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LINDA DONOVAN

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Contributors

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GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2017
Jun
24
 
 
Coal is hot. President Trump wants to make it great again. Environmentalists hate it for being the single greatest man-made contributor to global warming and environmental contamination...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
16
 
 
A heavily-tattooed, leather-clad drifter carrying drugs and several weapons is whacked. Male, five-foot-two, 110 pounds, approximately forty-five years old. Goes by the name Ötzi the Iceman. Assailant unknown...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
4
 
 
With the recent terrorist attacks in Paris fresh in our minds, it is worth reflecting on the one at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo... Smithsonian Channel's look back is a superficial one that refuses to bring perspective, analysis, or even very good storytelling...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
26
 
 
If you choose to gather 'round the telly after your Thanksgiving gorge, Ric Burns’ The Pilgrims is a great way to spend 90 minutes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
25
 
 
The Nova documentary patiently sketches the emerging contours of the genius’s special and general theories, then follows the careers of those ideas beyond his death...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
14
 
 
The Smithsonian special offers the first U.S. television showing of segments of interviews of bunker survivors taped in 1948...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
11
 
 
Nova is picking up the pace. The subject of this three-part series literally crawls at a glacial pace, but not this series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
25
 
 
There is no mistaking the message of this crisp, linear documentary. Hint: Look at the subtitle.  You are sitting on it, dear television couch potato...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Nov
10
 
 
We expect substance and balance from PBS’s stalwart American Experience franchise.  Do we get it from this week's new two-part JFK documentary?  Sort of...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
27
 
 
...Oddly, this mash-up of grade-C TV and movie editing techniques makes for two hours of compelling and mostly convincing television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

David Sicilia

David Sicilia is a business historian and commentator at the University of Maryland, where he tries to convince business students that history matters and history students that business matters (newest course: MoneyLand: Business in American Culture). He's written books about Alan Greenspan's image, American entrepreneurs, and the evolution of the U.S. corporation, among other things. He has been a talking head, with body attached, on NPR, CNBC, CNN Financial News, Bloomberg Financial Television, DR-1 Danish Public Television, and NHK Television Japan.
 
 
 
 

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