Famed documentarian Ken Burns visited Portland this week to show excerpts from the upcoming documentary series, "The American ...

As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Ken Burns is releasing a deep look into the fight for American ...

The Tulsa chapter of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution held their "Let Freedom Ring" ceremony to celebrate ...

This is the first in a weekly series to be featured every Saturday in The Recorder over the next on the founding of this ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

Ken Burns told Axios that his forthcoming six-part series — "The American Revolution" — has been in the works since December 2015 and required "years and years and years" of filming war reenactors ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

The United States celebrates its Independence Day on July 4 — a tradition that dates back to the 18th century and the American Revolution. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favor of ...

On July 4, 1777, the Sons of Liberty set fireworks off over Boston Common and in Philadelphia the Pennsylvania Evening Post wrote “at night there was a grand exhibition of fireworks (which began and ...

On July 4th, 1776, delegates from thirteen of Britain's North American colonies adopted a resolution "that these United ...

The documentarian will hold a live talk at Seattle's McCaw Hall on July 14, during which a sneak preview of the documentary ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to include the 27th U.S. state.