Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns will make a stop in Providence on Thursday, October 16, as part of a national tour promoting ...

As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Ken Burns is releasing a deep look into the fight for American ...

Now, the U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites have revived both fears of war and renewed questions about the president’s authority to unilaterally engage in military action.

“The American Civil War is the most important event in American history because it’s just such a bloody affair,” Burns said in his Tuesday morning talk to students. “750,000 Americans died.

The role played by British St. Augustine in the American War of Independence is Florida's most unique story in its 500 year history ― perhaps the most unique story of the American Revolution." ...

BREVARD, N.C. (WLOS) — Community members gathered at Brevard College to remember and observe the 75th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. On June 25, 1950, war broke out between what is ...

William Givens was in the 1810 Hopkins County, Kentucky, census. Why did he come here? That is a question that has puzzled the descendants of the approximately sixty American Revolutionary War ...

Retropolis Was this Revolutionary War hero America’s first openly gay general? The LGBTQ veterans who put rainbow ribbons near Baron von Steuben’s statue in D.C. think so.

As part of the Revolution 250 series of events happening throughout 2025 and 2026, the Bidwell House Museum is partnering with the Berkshire County Historical Society to present "Historic Songs of the ...

This nine-part series is the work that made documentarian Ken Burns a household name. Burns uses contemporary cinematography in addition to thousands of archival photographs, paintings and newspaper ...

Ken Burns’s latest documentary series, “The American Revolution,” doesn’t start airing for another five months. It debuts on PBS Nov. 16.

Documenting history For “ The American Revolution,” a documentary series that will air on PBS beginning Nov. 16, we relied heavily on the memories of the men and women who experienced the war.