Ken Burns's new documentary on the American Revolution engages in historical revisionism that ignores actual history.

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

“The American Revolution” is the opposite: enduring, not ephemeral. And it accomplishes what Gerbner urges: “To move past a simplistic, heroic vision of the revolution into a more nuanced and ...

Revolutions have consistently served as milestones in world history, bringing with them enormous political, social, and economic changes. They can often be traced back to some injustice, inequality, ...

Just under a decade before skirmishes in Concord and Lexington would set off the American Revolutionary War, a group known as the Daughters of Liberty formed to protest the Stamp Act, per University ...

Ken Burns' latest opus is solid storytelling. It also highlights the costliness of our ignorance about our history.

Indigenous history, resiliency and sovereignty take center stage in WKAR’s newest documentary series Before America. Each ...

On this day in history, March 8, 1917, the first phase of the Russian Revolution began in present-day Saint Petersburg. The March Revolution (sometimes called the February Revolution because of the ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

On July 4, the World Socialist Web Site marked the 244th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by hosting a discussion with five significant historians: Victoria Bynum, Clayborne Carson, ...

Revolutions are world-shaking affairs. But how much do we really know about who makes them? And how clearly do we understand their implications? There are few better times to ask such questions than ...

Christopher Hill’s history from below. The radical life and work of the historian. Christopher Hill was one of the most prolific and influential historians of the 20th century. He was also the product ...