The Most Important Works of Art in American History

The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith (film, 1915)Racist, “Lost Cause,” Klan-glorifying propaganda, it was also the birth of modern filmmaking. “Thoroughly pernicious, but tremendously important … establishing the importance of film and helping to shape national consciousness about Reconstructio…

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