Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed ...

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus t History Center will host a Jan. 24 screening.

Today, July 4, marks the 249 th birthday of the United States of America. That puts America 365 days from the big 250, a pretty good run for something as temporary-sounding as the “American Experiment ...

Fun fact: Only four U.S. presidents do not have Patriotic ancestors. They are Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, ...

Siege of Yorktown. General Rochambeau and general Washington give last orders before an attack, October 1781. Auguste Couder (1789–1873). Artist Auguste Couder, 1836 (Photo by Pierce Archive ...

Ken Burns’s obsession with this country can be felt in all 234 hours of his roughly 40 films—including his latest mega-doc, The American Revolution. At a moment when we are once again arguing about ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

This wonderful HBO miniseries stars Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney as John and Abigail Adams, the power couple of the ...

John Adams believed the American Revolution was a radical shift in the principles, opinions, and affections of the American people. Gordon Wood, a historian, emphasizes the Revolution's impact on ...

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On September 3, AEI’s Yuval Levin, Christine Rosen, and Adam J. White hosted a symposium at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello examining the American Revolution’s legacy in American history. The first ...