Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.
Archaeologists have found parts of the original 1700s foundation as well as numerous artifacts, including an English pistol ...
Former FBI director James B. Comey is asking a judge to dismiss his case on grounds that the U.S. attorney overseeing it was illegally appointed.
Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and tragedies of the nation’s founding. Plus: Donald Trump’s TikTok giveaway and Benjamin Nathans’s To the ...
Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...
As a descendant of United Empire Loyalists, the American Revolution doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling. Ancestors who ...
A new book by Historian Julia Gaffield analyzes the mixed legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti's first head of state post ...
While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...
A presentation focusing on an archaeological recovery project conducted at the site of the second battle of Saratoga will be ...
What did soldiers at the Tucson Presidio have in common with George Washington and Paul Revere? More than you might think, according to the Daughters of the American Revolution.
On October 19, 1781, the cause of liberty was immortalized on a riverside Virginia field when the Continental Army wrested victory from the arms of the ...
On Oct. 19, 1781, Britain's Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered with more than 7,000 troops to Gen. George Washington at ...