In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

The Civil War,' Ken Burns brings the Revolutionary War to life in a 12-hour, six-night documentary epic, a curtain-raiser to ...

Across 34 years at The Washington Post, he reported on the King assassination, covered antiwar protests in D.C. and prepared ...

Ken Burns' latest docuseries, "The American Revolution," explores the United States' bloody and hardwon origin story.

Revisit forgotten or underrated war TV shows that deserve a second chance, including Transatlantic, Women at War, and 1980's ...

"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history ...

As he prepares to release his latest series on the Revolutionary War, the filmmaker reflects on the history of the U.S. and his quest for truth.

Arkansas' population of 3.1 million includes some 222,000 military veterans, whose service to their country is being ...

The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” ...

Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour "The American Revolution," premiering Nov. 16-21 on PBS.

In a powerful new talk in Tokyo, Star Trek legend George Takei revisits his childhood behind barbed wire in U.S. World War II ...