By Vince Bzdek What is most striking about Ken Burns’ extraordinary new PBS documentary on the American Revolution is how ...

Philadelphia falls, but the American victory at Saratoga allows France to enter the war. As America braces for a third year of devastating war, British commanders launch campaigns to take Albany and ...

The revolutionary ideals of liberty spread across the colonies while many suffer from enslavement. Committees of Correspondence form in hundreds of Massachusetts towns linking advocates of resistance ...

On Sept. 30, 1941, Thomas Jefferson’s great-great grandson joined six other men for a private meeting at a Washington art gallery. The group’s mission was to choose quotes from the author of the ...

Full disclosure, I’m a proud daughter of the first American Revolution. My ancestor, Benjamin Parsons fought at Lexington & ...

"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 ...

Ken Burns revolutionized the way historical documentaries were made before the internet was even a common term, so it’s ...

Some historians have criticized Ken Burns’ docuseries The American Revolution for allegedly overstating Iroquois influence on ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

A new six-part documentary series from Ken Burns titled "The American Revolution" is set to premiere on Nov. 16. The film explores the eight-year war, which Burns considers the most consequential ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country's founding and its eight-year War for Independence, will premiere on Sunday, November 16 at 7pm and air ...

From Silent-Era Myths to Prestige TV, Here’s How America’s Founding Conflict Has Been Portrayed on Screen “The big ideas of the Revolution aren’t diminished by telling the truth. They’re made stronger ...