The 2024 Liberty Medal Ceremony Honoring Ken Burns

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week, the National Constitution Center held its annual Liberty Medal ceremony honoring America’s storyteller, Ken Burns, for illuminating the nation’s greatest triumphs and tragedies and inspiring all of us to learn about the principles at the heart of the American idea. In this episode, Jeffrey Rosen and Burns’s co-director Sarah Botstein talk about Burns’s life and work, followed by Ken Burns’s inspiring acceptance speech. Burns then sits down with Rosen for a conversation about the American Idea. Resources: The National Constitution Center’s 2024 Liberty Medal Ceremony   Stay Connected and Learn More Questions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected] Continue the conversation by following us on social media @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen. Join us for an upcoming live program or watch recordings on YouTube. Support our important work. Donate

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0:00.0	Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National
0:06.6	Constitution Center and welcome to Weed Appeat People, a weekly show of
0:10.1	constitutional debate. The National Constitution Centers
0:12.9	a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase
0:16.7	awareness and understanding of a Constitution among the American people.
0:20.9	This week I had the great honor of awarding the 2024 Liberty Medal to
0:25.7	Ken Burns on behalf of the NCC. I've had the privilege of participating in a
0:30.4	decade of Liberty Medal ceremonies. this was one for the ages.
0:35.0	Enjoy the show.
0:37.0	Welcome to the National Constitution Center. It is so meaningful to award the 2024 Liberty Medal to Ken Burns. Friends,
0:55.0	Friends, let's begin as always by
1:00.0	by feeling the electricity of American history that unfolded on this sacred ground.
1:11.2	Please gaze at the words of the First Amendment that are shining in front of you.
1:20.6	And now please turn your gaze to Independence Hall, where the Declaration and the Constitution were drafted.
1:30.0	Think about the human stories that gave rise to the big ideas, the American ideas reflected in those documents.
1:44.0	Liberty, equality, and democracy.
1:50.3	For most Americans, the best way of learning about the human stories behind the American idea
1:56.6	in the years leading up to America's 250th birthday will be Ken Burns' new series on the American Revolution.
2:05.0	It's a riveting 12-part series.
2:09.0	I've had the privilege of screening it.
2:11.0	It brings to life stories of the revolution as only Ken Burns can
2:15.7	by combining quotations from primary texts, personal narratives by revolutionary
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