It is good that “The American Revolution,” a series by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, premiered on PBS the week before Thanksgiving. It is good to be reminded of the sacrifices that were ...

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

Historian Rick Atkinson stated in a recent talk that Americans tend to view the American Revolution through a kind of rosy haze. In Fate of the Day: The American War for Independence, Atkinson lays ...

Louisiana Public Broadcasting has launched Louisiana’s Hidden History: Spanish Louisiana in the American Revolution, a new educational collection now available nationwide on PBS LearningMedia.

Saying that the most patriotic act you can commit this month is to watch director Ken Burns' six-part, 12-hour "The American Revolution" is a little like saying you have to eat your vegetables. But ...

Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Through ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian and author Don Hagist provided opening remarks to begin his lecture about the British Army before and during the Revolutionary War. The ...

LYNN — As 15-year-old Sreynin Ny read through the list of grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence, the meaning behind the dated language eventually became clear to her.

LEXINGTON — Anyone who has seen the work of renowned documentarian Ken Burns knows he has a way of bringing history to life. For four decades he has captured the stories of people and places from ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premiered on PBS, it marked the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says these ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...