Charles Lindbergh in "The U.S. and the Holocaust"

What Ken Burns gets absolutely right about America's most infamous aviator

For reasons I doubt I’ll ever understand, the Holocaust has always been the beating heart of my conflicted love for history. I’m a Gentile, a Christian, yet there’s not a course I teach that doesn’t somehow wend its way back to the genocide committed against Europe’s Jewish population. And I’m sure it’s no coincidence that when I did finally set out to …