Girl Scouts singing folk songs, a flag-waving party and a Times Square ball drop are among the planned Semiquincentennial ...

Ramtin talks with filmmaker Ken Burns about the revolution that made the U.S., and the surprising lessons he thinks it holds ...

Sag Harbor Cinema will host free, weekly screenings of “The American Revolution,” a new documentary by renowned filmmakers ...

The new PBS docuseries, narrated by George Clooney and with Jeff Goldblum voicing Thoreau, delves into Thoreau’s life.

3. THE SECRET OF SECRETS, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) As he searches for the missing noetic scientist he has been seeing, ...

Sag Harbor Cinema will host free, weekly screenings of The American Revolution, a new documentary by renowned filmmakers Ken ...

David R. Wagner, the eminent Connecticut muralist and painter of great scenes from American history, died in early December at the age of 85. His work lives on thanks to such varied admirers as Ken ...

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus the Oklahoma History Center will ...

It was 1860 and America was at an inflection point. It wasn't just slavery that was on trial: the Founding Fathers' vision itself was up for grabs. A growing segment of America’s population—mostly in ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa — A Bettendorf middle school student who earned national recognition for a documentary on school book bans has now received guidance from one of the most renowned documentary ...

I love being at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Among other exhibits, it houses America’s official presidential portraits, which I find so compelling I visit and ...

The Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution that recently aired on PBS is an unsanitized version that they didn’t teach us in school. The fight for independence was one part revolution ...