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

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

Told over six installments, "The American Revolution" is an expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and ...

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

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

If you're looking for a quaint destination where you can enjoy all of the history and beauty that Virginia has to offer, ...

This restored and colorized collection offers a sober and unfiltered glimpse into life during the American Civil War in the ...

Elijah Wood was an enslaved soldier who fought for the Union in the Civil War and served in the first United States Colored ...

Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of ...

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Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...