Respected documentarian Ken Burns' latest project is a PBS docuseries that explores the American Revolution in extreme detail ...

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same Mr. Conservative and the Minister Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects This Thanksgiving, Heed the Words of George Washington Thanksgiving Day ...

With surfboards tucked under their arms, half a dozen school-aged boys clad in matching green swim trunks and yellow rash guards ran from the beach into the foam and paddled out into the Atlantic.

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Goes Big and Goes Winslow Homer in a Splendid Show A Catfight in a Snake Pit in Philly’s Art Museum NRPLUS Conference Call with Meir Soloveichik and Rich Lowry Dracula ...

New Jersey’s landscape has taken center stage in Ken Burns’ "The American Revolution." The ongoing PBS series portrays the Garden State as the defining battleground of the conflict’s lowest points and ...

Like every great Ken Burns documentary, the letters and writings of the people involved are an important part of telling the story. The American Revolution is no exception, and the actors involved are ...

Ken Burns' latest project is an expansive documentary about the history of the American Revolution. Premiering Nov. 16 on PBS and airing over six consecutive nights, The American Revolution starts ...

Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein on telling the story of “The American Revolution” in their docuseries. Filmmaker Ken Burns’ newest documentary, “The American Revolution,” premieres on Detroit PBS on ...

Ken Burns. Photo by Stephanie Berger. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will be awarded the first Commonwealth Prize, an honor for patriotic service or extraordinary and lasting contributions to the ...

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress.

The twelve-hour series, told in six parts, details the country’s founding with help from Zabin, a historian of early America and Carleton College’s Stephen R. Lewis Jr. Professor of History and the ...

As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series on our country's first — and, he argues, ongoing — revolution aims to ...