Ken Burns on Wednesday dropped by The Late Show where he offered hope for the future to Stephen Colbert and viewers through the documentarian's unique lens of history.
While promoting his upcoming project,Hemingway, a three-part docuseries about the legendary author, Burns explained why Americans need to keep current events in perspective. "I think it is that history does rhyme, as [Mark] Twain said.
That you can see theseantecedents, you can see that we got through aspects of this before," Burns said. Pointing to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Burns said people told him the country was in a Depression. "And I said, 'In our Depression, in many American cities, in the zoos, the animals were shot and the meat distributed to the poor.
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