Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

The park service has long tried to present a wide range of perspectives on historical events. The Trump administration could ...

With co-directors David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein, he tells America’s origin story in his new film, “ The American ...

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At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State ...

A Heritage insider alleging "openly misogynistic and racist” conduct shines a light on the right’s inner workings.

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Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz ...

After an outbreak of disease, an island off the coast of South Carolina became one of the only ‘free-roam’ monkey colonies in ...

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...