Step forward Ken Burns, king of US documentary making. His prolific catalogue — whose subjects range from baseball to the ...

A quarter of a millennium ago, “Swamp Fox” Francis Marion took on the British empire with a rag-tag group of part-time ...

After more than a decade of wars, from Syria to Gaza, the Middle East is exhausted by conflict. Is it ready to find another ...

The fight for independence was one part revolution, one part civil war, with brutalities on both sides. That was one takeaway. George Washington was not all that hot of a military strategist, but he ...