Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.
Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and tragedies of the nation’s ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson urged New Orleans leaders to treasure institutions that prevent power from ...
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In January 1776, Virginia’s Port City of Norfolk Was Set Ablaze, Galvanizing the Revolution. But Who Really Lit the Match?
The first morning of 1776 dawned mercifully warm and clear over Virginia’s port of Norfolk, a welcome change after the snow ...
The American Revolution (1775–1783) was a historic struggle that led to the birth of the United States of America. It began ...
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Ken Burns at the Barricades
That manner of activation of a still image, now widely known as the Ken Burns Effect (thanks partly to Apple iMovie, where it ...
Paine, though enamored of the new American style of magazine making, resigned his post after less than a year because the ...
Street names in Columbia often carry interesting meanings behind them. From Catawba to Whaley, streets that we see every day ...
Dr Sean Cunningham, a curator at the National Archives, said: "Revolution 250 will explore two pivotal decades that reshaped ...
Institutions around the country are preparing for the nation’s 250th anniversary, even in the face of political crosswinds.
As a descendant of United Empire Loyalists, the American Revolution doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling. Ancestors who ...
In America, the law is king!’ ‘No King! No Tyranny!’ For a skeptical Thomas Paine, every day was ‘No Kings Day.’ ...
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