The Birth of a Nation: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Stephen R. Fox, The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter (1970); Richard Schickel, D.W. Griffith: An American Life (1984); Melvyn Stokes, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation: A History of “the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time” (2007); Dick Lehr, The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War (2014).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: Library of Congress - The Birth of a Nation. | Oct 12, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at UNO - The Birth of a Nation as American Myth (PDF). | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Salve Regina - Birth of a Nation's "Story in the Public Square" (PDF). | Apr 19, 2025 | ||
| Capitalized “Black” and adjusted organization. | Feb 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - The Birth of a Nation: The most racist movie ever made? | Jan 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - 100 Years Later, What's The Legacy Of 'Birth Of A Nation'? | Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Indiana University Pressbooks - The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present - D. W. Griffith�s The Birth of a Nation. | Aug 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Deride the lightning: assessing The Birth of a Nation 100 years on. | May 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ohio State University - Origins - 3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years. | Oct 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - The Birth of a Nation. | Sep 08, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Jun 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The First Amendment Encyclopedia - The Birth of a Nation. | Jun 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "The Birth of a Nation". | May 18, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Feb 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Filmsite - The Birth of a Nation (1915). | Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Studies at the University of Virginia - Themes in The Birth of a Nation. | Oct 31, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Film Institute - The Birth of a Nation (1915). | May 31, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - The Birth of a Nation: When Hollywood Glorified the KKK. | Jan 08, 2018 | ||
| Changed "premier" to "premiere." | Aug 09, 2017 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Apr 30, 2015 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 30, 2015 | ||
| Added photograph. | Apr 30, 2015 | ||
| Added photograph. | Mar 27, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - The Birth of a Nation (1915). | Nov 02, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - The Birth of a Nation. | Nov 02, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: AllMovie - The Birth of a Nation. | Nov 02, 2012 | ||
| New article added. | Jan 22, 2010 |
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