The name of the sitting U.S. president was never uttered during Thursday night’s New York premiere of Ken Burns ‘s PBS docuseries The American Revolution (nor, for the record, was the name Jimmy Kimmel ).

Even so, Donald Trump and his efforts to omit parts of American history via direct orders to the Smithsonian, National Park Service and others was nevertheless an obvious reference point.

“There is this tendency to make it so Weekly Reader,” Burns said. “It’s superficial.” PBS, he added, “has urged us, but also permitted us to dive deep, unafraid of conflict. And by the way, PBS is not going anywhere” despite being stripped of a key part of its funding.

Burns drew huge applause from the crowd at Town Hall during a panel moderated by Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg f

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