Ken Burns on America at 250: The Revolution, Patriotism, Baseball and the Fight for Democracy.

Paul Rieckhoff sits down with the great Ken Burns for a special America 250 conversation on the American Revolution, the abdication of Congress, the return of Confederate names to U.S. forts, the Wounded Knee medals, the rebrand of Defense to the Department of War, and why baseball still teaches Americans who we are. From George Washington resigning power to Jackie Robinson walking to first base at Ebbets Field, Burns calls balls and strikes on the founding, the Angry Middle, and the feeble engines of despotism — and lands on the line that matters most: there is no them, only us.