According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

The USA is a miracle, and the revolution that made it possible could easily have gone the wrong way. These were a couple of ...

Washington takes command of the Continental Army. Congress declares American independence. New Englanders rush to surround the British Army in Boston, but as war begins Americans find themselves ...

Washington takes command of the Continental Army. Congress declares American independence. New Englanders rush to surround the British Army in Boston, but as war begins Americans find themselves ...

Examining how America’s founding turned the world upside-down as the thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence and established a new form of government ...

The Battle of Long Island took place on Long Island, but (as most Long Islanders know) not exactly. On Aug. 27, 1776, just weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Aug. 2, the ...

When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says ...

American history, when told well, resists the tidy progressions we like to imagine for it. Two recent works -- Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward's "The American Revolution: An Intimate History" and John ...