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59-505: Nordenskiöld was featured on the Ken Burns PBS series The National Parks: America's Best Idea . Nordenskiöld completed school at Beskowska skolan in Stockholm and studied at Uppsala University and the new University of Stockholm , graduating with a B.A. from Uppsala in 1889. The next year (1890) he traveled to Svalbard together with J. A. Björling and A. Klinckowström , bringing

118-710: A "number of cliff dwellings". This break in the itinerary of his world tour was permanent. When Nordenskiöld arrived in Durango he made arrangements to stay with cattle rancher Richard Wetherill at the Alamo Ranch in Mancos, Colorado . This is confirmed in a 2 July 1893 letter to his father in which he requests his photographic equipment, consisting of a camera, tripod, lens, cassette for photographic plates, shutter, dark cloth, and "as well as my barometer". (Letter No. 15, The Letters of Gustaf Nordenskiöld Mesa Verde 1991.) He also says in

177-676: A Stockholm newspaper, and then later written in the preface to his 1892 book "From the Far West, Memories of America" Nordenskiöld states "The free roaming nomadic life, which this research forced me into, appealed greatly to my spirit and created a desire for excursions farther into the deserts of the American West. I decided to go roaming on horseback with two companions through the northern part of Arizona." He made this trip, actually through Indian country in Colorado, Utah and Arizona, which went as far as

236-698: A collection of plant fossils back to the Swedish Museum of Natural History . After his return, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and went to Berlin for treatment. Nordenskiöld's North American segment of a world tour began when he landed in New York on 27 May 1891 aboard the SS Waesland of the Red Star Line . (Letter No. 2, The Letters of Gustaf Nordenskiöld Mesa Verde 1991). In Letter No. 9 from Charleston, North Carolina , he tells his father to address letters to

295-630: A curator and Director of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) and a professorship in Mineralogy at the Swedish Academy of Sciences . He was also awarded the 1869 Royal Geographical Society 's Founder's Medal . Nordenskiöld's participation in three geological expeditions to Spitsbergen, followed by longer Arctic explorations in 1867, 1870, 1872 and 1875, led him to attempt

354-585: A documentary about an Ann Arbor factory. He graduated from Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor in 1971. Turning down reduced tuition at the University of Michigan, he attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where students are graded through narrative evaluations rather than letter grades and where students create self-directed academic concentrations instead of choosing a traditional major. Burns worked in

413-621: A monumental record of the expedition in five volumes, and himself wrote a more popular summary in two volumes. On his return to Sweden he received an enthusiastic welcome, and in April 1880 was made a baron and a commander of the Order of the North Star . In 1883, he visited the east coast of Greenland for the second time, and succeeded in taking his ship through the great ice barrier, a feat attempted in vain during more than three centuries. The captain on

472-703: A museum retrospective noted, "His PBS specials [are] strikingly out of step with the visual pyrotechnics and frenetic pacing of most reality-based TV programming, relying instead on techniques that are literally decades old, although Burns reintegrates these constituent elements into a wholly new and highly complex textual arrangement." In a 2011 interview, Burns stated that he admires and is influenced by filmmaker Errol Morris . These three short films are collected and distributed together as Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal . Adolf Erik Nordenski%C3%B6ld Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ( pronunciation ; 18 November 1832 – 12 August 1901)

531-537: A record store to pay his tuition. Living on as little as $ 2,500 in two years in Walpole, New Hampshire , Burns studied under photographers Jerome Liebling , Elaine Mayes , and others. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies and design in 1975. In 1976, Burns, Elaine Mayes, and college classmate Roger Sherman founded a production company called Florentine Films in Walpole, New Hampshire. The company's name

590-408: A regular contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV . In 2016, he also gave a commencement speech for Stanford University criticizing Donald Trump . In 2023, a 2013 photograph of Ken Burns and Clarence Thomas at a Koch Brothers fundraising event was made public in a Pro Publica article about Justice Thomas' ties to right wing activists. Burns stated that the encounter

649-634: A small town on the south coast of Finland. He then entered the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki in 1849 where he studied mathematics , geology , and applied himself especially to chemistry and mineralogy . He received his master's degree in 1853. Two years later he published his doctoral dissertation , entitled "Om grafitens och chondroditens kristallformer" ("On the crystal forms of graphite and chondrodite "). Upon his graduation, in 1853, Nordenskiöld accompanied his father to

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708-593: A train traveling to Jämtland , only 27 years old. As he predeceased his father the Baron , he did not inherit the family title, which therefore passed to his brother Erland , on the death of their father, in 1901. Nordenskiöld's collections from Mesa Verde were bought by a Finnish collector who eventually donated them to the University of Helsinki . They are now held by the National Museum of Finland and were on display at

767-577: Is a distant relative of Scottish poet Robert Burns . In 2014, Burns appeared in Henry Louis Gates 's Finding Your Roots where he discovered that he is a descendant of a slave owner from the Deep South , in addition to having a lineage which traces back to Colonial Americans of Loyalist allegiance during the American Revolution . Burns is an avid quilt collector. About one-third of

826-454: Is now termed the " Ken Burns effect " in Apple 's iPhoto , iMovie , and Final Cut Pro X software applications. Burns stated in a 2009 interview that he initially declined to have his name associated with the software because of his stance to refuse commercial endorsements. However, Apple chief Steve Jobs negotiated to give Burns Apple equipment, which Burns donated to nonprofit organizations. As

885-531: Is often produced in association with WETA-TV or the National Endowment for the Humanities and distributed by PBS . Burns's widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), and Country Music (2019). He

944-541: The Vega Expedition along the northern coast of Eurasia in 1878–1879. This was the first complete crossing of the Northeast Passage . Initially a troubled enterprise, the successful expedition is considered to be among the highest achievements in the history of Swedish science. The Nordenskiölds were an old Fenno-Swedish family, and members of the nobility . Nordenskiöld's father, Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld ,

1003-537: The Democratic National Convention , a video described by Politico as a "Burns-crafted tribute casting him [Kennedy] as the modern Ulysses bringing his party home to port." In August 2009, Kennedy died, and Burns produced a short eulogy video at his funeral. In endorsing Barack Obama for the U.S. presidency in December 2007, Burns compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln . He said he had planned to be

1062-721: The John Steinbeck Award , an award presented annually by Steinbeck's eldest son, Thomas, in collaboration with the John Steinbeck Family Foundation, San Jose State University , and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies . In May 2015, Burns gave the commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis and received an honorary doctorate of humanities. Burns was the Grand Marshal for

1121-917: The Mayo Clinic , Muhammad Ali , Ernest Hemingway , the American Revolution , Lyndon B. Johnson , Barack Obama , Winston Churchill , the American criminal justice system, and African-American history from the Civil War to the Great Migration . On April 5, 2021, Hemingway , a three-episode, six-hour documentary, a recapitulation of Hemingway's life, labors, and loves, debuted on the Public Broadcasting System , co-produced and directed by Burns and Lynn Novick . In 1982, Burns married Amy Stechler. The couple had two daughters, Sarah and Lilly . Their marriage ended in divorce in 1993. As of 2017 , Burns

1180-705: The Museum of Cultures in the Tennispalatsi building in central Helsinki, as part of the collection called "Fetched from Afar" (Kaukaa Haettua) until 19 May 2013. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences contains an archive of photographs, notes, correspondence and newspaper clippings. The Riksarkivet includes letters to his father from Washington, Philadelphia, Charleston, Mammoth Cave (in Kentucky), Durango, Navajo Canyon, and other locations. Publisher(s): American Geographical Society; Author(s): W. R. Birdsall; Source: Journal of

1239-685: The New York Times crossword puzzle. He says, "there has not been a day since when I haven't done the New York Times crossword puzzle". Burns is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party , describing himself as a “ Yellow dog Democrat ” and contributing almost $ 40,000 in political donations. In 2008, the Democratic National Committee chose Burns to produce the introductory video for Senator Ted Kennedy 's August 2008 speech to

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1298-587: The Ural Mountains and studied the iron and copper mines at Tagilsk ; on his return he received minor appointments both at the university and the mining office. Having studied under Johan Ludvig Runeberg , Nordenskiöld belonged to Liberal , anti- tsarist circles that agitated for Finland's liberation from Russia by the Swedes during the Crimean War . An unguarded speech at a convivial entertainment in 1855 drew

1357-718: The Vega expedition, Louis Palander , was made a nobleman at the same time, and took the name Palander af Vega . In 1893, Nordenskiöld was elected to the 12th chair of the Swedish Academy . In 1900 he received the Murchison Medal from the Geological Society of London . He was nominated for the first Nobel Prize in Physics but died before the prizes were awarded. Nordenskiöld died on 12 August 1901, in Dalbyö , Södermanland , Sweden, at

1416-557: The Washington University International Humanities Medal. The medal, awarded biennially and accompanied by a cash prize of $ 25,000, is given to honor a person whose humanistic endeavors in scholarship, journalism, literature, or the arts have made a difference in the world. Past winners include Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk in 2006, journalist Michael Pollan in 2008, and novelist and nonfiction writer Francine Prose in 2010. In 2013, Burns received

1475-753: The 10 part TV series The Vietnam War (aired September 2017). Burns has built a long, successful career directing and producing well-received television documentaries and documentary miniseries . His oeuvre covers diverse subjects including art ( Thomas Hart Benton , 1988), mass media ( Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio , 1991), sports ( Baseball , 1994, updated with 10th Inning , 2010), political history ( Thomas Jefferson , 1997), music ( Jazz , 2001; Country Music , 2019), literature ( Mark Twain , 2001; Hemingway , 2021), environmentalism ( The National Parks , 2009), and war (the 15-hour World War II documentary The War , 2007;

1534-460: The 11-hour The Civil War , 1990, which All Media Guide says "many consider his 'chef d'oeuvre ' "). In 2007, Burns made an agreement with PBS to produce work for the network well into the next decade. According to a 2017 piece in The New Yorker , Burns and his company, Florentine Films, have selected topics for documentaries slated for release by 2030. These topics include country music ,

1593-599: The 2016 Pasadena Tournament of Roses ' Rose Parade on New Year's Day in Pasadena , California . The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Burns to deliver the 2016 Jefferson Lecture , the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities , on the topic of race in America. He was the 2017 recipient of The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal at Vanderbilt University . In 2019, he received an honorary degree from Brown University . In 2022 he served as

1652-649: The American Geographical Society of New York, Vol. 23, (1891), pp. 584–620 Publisher(s): American Geographical Society; Reviewed Authors(s): G. Nordenskiold; Source: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 23, (1894), pp. 434–435 Ken Burns Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture . His work

1711-495: The Grand Canyon. (Kungl. Boktryckeriet P.A. Norstedt & Soner Stockholm, 1892. In English, The Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa Verde National Park, CO 81330) In 1893 he published one of the first books about Mesa Verde, The Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado: Their Pottery and Implements , a monumental report of his excavations, describing in detail the buildings, pottery, skeletal remains, and tools found at

1770-695: The Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks. The award recognizes an individual or organization that has effectively communicated the values of the National Park System to the American public. As of 2010 , there is a Ken Burns Wing at the Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography and Video at Hampshire College. Burns was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2011. In 2012, Burns received

1829-562: The S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards . In 2008 Burns was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award . In 2008 Burns received The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement. In 2010, the National Parks Conservation Association honored him and Dayton Duncan with

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1888-582: The Swedish Consulate in San Francisco and on 27 June 1891 he wrote to his mother from Denver , Colorado, and included a request that further letters be addressed to the Swedish Consulate in Yokohama , Japan, so the world tour was still on his mind. Three days later, on 30 June 1891, also from Denver, he tells his father that tomorrow he was going to Durango, Colorado , and the "Mancos Valley" where there are

1947-788: The Year Award from the Producers Guild of America , a People's Choice Award , a Peabody Award , a duPont-Columbia Award , a D. W. Griffith Award , and the $ 50,000 Lincoln Prize . In 1991, Burns received the National Humanities Medal , then called the Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities. In 1991, Burns received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . In 2004, Burns received

2006-459: The age of 68. As an explorer, Nordenskiöld was interested in the history of Arctic exploration, especially as evidenced in old maps. This interest in turn led him to collect and systematically study early maps. He wrote two substantial monographs, which both included many facsimiles, on early printed atlases and geographical mapping and medieval marine charts, respectively the Facsimile-Atlas to

2065-512: The attention of the Imperial Russian authorities to his political views, and led to a dismissal from the university. He then visited Berlin , continuing his mineralogical studies, and in 1856 obtained a travelling stipend from the university in Helsinki and planned to expend it in geological research in Siberia and Kamchatka . In 1856, Nordenskiöld was also appointed Docent in Mineralogy at

2124-452: The aunt of Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim . Nordenskiöld settled in Stockholm , and soon he received an offer from Otto Torell , a geologist, to accompany him on an expedition to Spitsbergen . To the observations of Torell on glacial phenomena Nordenskiöld added the discovery at Bell Sound of remains of Tertiary plants, and on the return of the expedition he received the appointment of

2183-472: The cliff dwellings. Nordenskiöld employed Wetherill to supervise excavations at Mesa Verde and trained Wetherill in a number of techniques, such as how to use a trowel (he had been using a shovel). Nordenskiöld explained to Wetherill the importance of documentation. In the late 19th century, there were no laws against treasure-hunting or selling artifacts in Colorado; in addition to the ever-present threat of vandalism and looting, scholars and tourists alike had

2242-417: The commencement speaker at the University of Pennsylvania and received an Honorary Doctor of Arts. Burns frequently incorporates simple musical leitmotifs or melodies. For example, The Civil War features a distinctive violin melody throughout, " Ashokan Farewell ", which was performed for the film by its composer, fiddler Jay Ungar . One critic noted, "One of the most memorable things about The Civil War

2301-482: The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge . Developing a signature style of documentary filmmaking in which he "adopted the technique of cutting rapidly from one still picture to another in a fluid, linear fashion [and] then pepped up the visuals with 'first hand' narration gleaned from contemporary writings and recited by top stage and screen actors", Burns made the feature documentary Brooklyn Bridge (1981), which

2360-532: The discovery of the long-sought Northeast Passage . This he accomplished in the voyage of the SS Vega , navigating for the first time the northern coasts of Europe and Asia. Starting from Karlskrona on 22 June 1878, the Vega doubled Cape Chelyuskin in the following August, and after being frozen in at the end of September near the Bering Strait , completed the voyage successfully in the following summer. He edited

2419-586: The habit of taking valuable items from Mesa Verde as trophies. In this climate, Nordenskiöld loaded Mesa Verde artifacts into Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad boxcars in Durango, Colorado , and headed for Europe, with most of the items eventually ending up at the National Museum of Finland . Nordenskiöld biographers Judith Reynolds and David Reynolds describe the ensuing situation as an "international incident." Angry locals charged Nordenskiöld with "devastating

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2478-405: The quilts from his personal collection were displayed at The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska from January 19 to May 13, 2018. When asked if he would ever make a film regarding his mother Lyla, Burns responded: "All of my films are about her. I don't think I could do it directly, because of how intensely painful it is." Burns is a regular solver of

2537-540: The ruins" and had him arrested at midnight at the Strater Hotel even though there were no laws at the time supporting such a charge. In addition to the issue of removing artifacts, xenophobia may have played a role in Nordenskiöld's arrest. In the December 9, 2005, Denver Post article, Electra Draper wrote: "...residents of Durango were beginning to think foreigners shouldn't be removing local artifacts." No intervention

2596-458: The same letter that his father should answer by telegram whether he should remain where he is. He worked with Wetherill, discoverer of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings in 1888, and Charles Mason. The Wetherill's led Nordenskiöld through the canyons and sandstone cliffs of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings where he applied his European scientific training, conducting the first archaeological excavation of

2655-512: The shared name of Florentine Films. As such, their individual "subsidiary" companies include Ken Burns Media , Sherman Pictures , and Hott Productions . Burns's oldest child, Sarah , is also an employee of the company as of 2020. Burns initially worked as a cinematographer for the BBC , Italian television, and others. In 1977, having completed some documentary short films , he began work on adapting David McCullough 's book The Great Bridge , about

2714-487: The sites. A full rendering of Gustaf Nordenskiöld's book in the 1893 version (see pg. v) is here http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000029476458 . (Courtesy of the Hilthi Trust Digital Library, University of Michigan Library.) After his return from America, Nordenskiöld occupied himself with mineralogical studies, but his health started to deteriorate again in 1894. He died on June 6, 1895, aboard

2773-436: The time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University in Manhattan. The documentary filmmaker Ric Burns is his younger brother. Burns's academic family moved frequently. Among places they called home were Saint-Véran , France; Newark , Delaware; and Ann Arbor , Michigan, where his father taught at the University of Michigan . Burns describes growing up as "hippies" in Ann Arbor. Burns's mother

2832-413: The university. In 1857 he aroused the suspicion of the authorities again, so that he was forced to leave Finland, practically as a political refugee , and was deprived of the right of ever holding office in the university of Finland. He fled to Sweden. In 1862, he was one of the founding members of Sällskapet Idun , a men's association founded in Stockholm. In 1863 he married Anna Maria Mannerheim ,

2891-424: Was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist , mineralogist and Arctic explorer . He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron). Born in the Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire , he was forced to move to Sweden in 1857 due to his political activity, where he became a member of the Parliament of Sweden and of the Swedish Academy . He led

2950-523: Was a Finnish mineralogist , civil servant and traveller. He was also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Adolf Erik was the father of Gustaf Nordenskiöld (explorer of Mesa Verde ) and Erland Nordenskiöld ( ethnographer of South America ) and maternal uncle of Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (another polar explorer). Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld's parents were cousins — Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (born in 1831 in Hässleby, Sweden) and Anna Elisabet Sofia Nordenskiöld (born in 1841 in Finland), who

3009-399: Was a brief social encounter resulting from Charles Koch 's support of PBS programming. Altogether Burns's work has garnered several awards, including two Oscar nominations, two Grammy Awards and 15 Emmy Awards. The Civil War received more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards , two Grammy Awards (one for Best Traditional Folk Album ), the Producer of

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3068-443: Was also executive producer of both The West (1996), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015). Burns's documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (for 1981's Brooklyn Bridge and 1985's The Statue of Liberty ) and have won several Emmy Awards , among other honors. Burns was born on July 29, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, to Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, a biotechnician, and Robert Kyle Burns Jr., at

3127-491: Was borrowed from Mayes's hometown of Florence , Massachusetts. Another Hampshire College student, Buddy Squires, was invited to succeed Mayes as a founding member one year later. The trio were later joined by a fourth member, Lawrence "Larry" Hott . Hott did not actually matriculate at Hampshire, but worked on films there. Hott had begun his career as an attorney, having attended nearby Western New England Law School . Each member works independently, but releases content under

3186-481: Was found to have breast cancer when he was three, and she died when he was 11, a circumstance that he said helped shape his career; he credited his psychologist father-in-law, Gerald Stechler, with a significant insight: "He told me that my whole work was an attempt to make people long gone come back alive." Well-read as a child, he absorbed the family encyclopedia, preferring history to fiction. Upon receiving an 8 mm film movie camera for his 17th birthday, he shot

3245-428: Was its haunting, repeated violin melody, whose thin, yearning notes seemed somehow to sum up all the pathos of that great struggle." Burns often gives life to still photographs by slowly zooming out subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. It has long been used in film production where it is known as the " rostrum camera ". This technique, possible in many professional and home software applications,

3304-443: Was narrated by David McCullough, earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary and ran on PBS in the United States. Following another documentary, The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984), Burns was Oscar-nominated again for The Statue of Liberty (1985). Burns frequently collaborates with author and historian Geoffrey C. Ward , notably on documentaries such as The Civil War , Jazz , Baseball , and

3363-490: Was residing in Walpole, New Hampshire. He and Julie Deborah Brown, daughter of Leslie Mundjer and the Smith Barney senior vice president Richard Brown and stepdaughter of Ellen Brown, married on October 18, 2003. Julie Deborah Brown founded Room to Grow, a non-profit providing aid to babies in poor families. They have two daughters. Burns is a descendant of Johannes de Peyster Sr. through Gerardus Clarkson, an American Revolutionary War physician from Philadelphia , and he

3422-415: Was taken against Americans who were also looting the sites. When Nordenskiöld was arrested on 17 September 1891 he sent this telegram to his father: "much trouble some expense no danger" (original omits capitalization). Letter No. 31, The Letters of Gustaf Nordenskiöld Mesa Verde 1991. In the end, Nordenskiöld took more than 150 photographs of Mesa Verde, and logged multiple sites. Originally published in

3481-419: Was the sister of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. The Swedish side of the family used the spelling "Nordenskjöld", whereas the Finnish side of the family used the "Nordenskiöld" spelling. Nordenskiöld was born in 1832 in Helsinki , the capital of Finland, but he spent his early youth on the family estate, the Alikartano Manor ( Frugård ), located in the Numminen village in Mäntsälä . He went to school in Porvoo ,

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