Ken Burns' PBS documentary "The American Revolution" represents the best of filmmaking and a vital examination of the ...

Ken Burns' documentary series "The American Revolution" placed PBS in Nielsen's streaming Top 10 for the first time ...

Ken Burn's "American Revolution" documentary shows that war had profound implications for humanity, notion of equality of all ...

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

How the American Revolution opened the Mississippi frontier, drew war veterans west, and set in motion the founding and early ...

Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Through ...

"From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished." Cultural historian and filmmaker Ken Burns has delighted audiences with in-depth documentaries about American life.

America’s fight for independence reverberated around the world in significant ways, which University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell explores in his engaging new book, The American ...

The American Revolution is not just the start of a nation, but an event that will change the world. The idea of America, rooted in the American Revolution, is the belief in possibility. Everyone on ...

Siege of Yorktown. General Rochambeau and general Washington give last orders before an attack, October 1781. Auguste Couder (1789–1873). Artist Auguste Couder, 1836 (Photo by Pierce Archive ...

The ironies abound. As the United States looks forward to the 250th anniversary of American independence, the sitting president is pictured wearing a crown and describing himself as a king, apparently ...

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished.” Cultural ...