That manner of activation of a still image, now widely known as the Ken Burns Effect (thanks partly to Apple iMovie, where it ...
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 ...
Dr Sean Cunningham, a curator at the National Archives, said: "Revolution 250 will explore two pivotal decades that reshaped ...
Dunlap prints were the first official printings of the Declaration of Independence and it is believed only around 200 copies were ever made.
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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 ...
Institutions around the country are preparing for the nation’s 250th anniversary, even in the face of political crosswinds.
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The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself.
Speech by Alfred Moore Waddell: Men, the crisis is upon us. You must do your duty. This city, county, and state shall be rid of negro domination once and forever. You are the sons of noble ancestry.
The Battle of Brandywine was an example of how the Revolutionary Way was a civil war. About 500 colonists fought at Brandywine on the side of the British as loyalists, firing at their neighbors and ...
In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What ...
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