Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

Respected documentarian Ken Burns' latest project is a PBS docuseries that explores the American Revolution in extreme detail ...

"Freedom's Fury," a documentary about a water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union, deserves your attention.

Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

Ken Burns' latest documentary, "The American Revolution," was financially supported by the Better Angels Society. The Better Angels Society is a nonprofit that has raised over $100 million for Burns ...

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same Mr. Conservative and the Minister Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects This Thanksgiving, Heed the Words of George Washington Thanksgiving Day ...

With surfboards tucked under their arms, half a dozen school-aged boys clad in matching green swim trunks and yellow rash guards ran from the beach into the foam and paddled out into the Atlantic.

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phase once associated with ...

New Jersey’s landscape has taken center stage in Ken Burns’ "The American Revolution." The ongoing PBS series portrays the Garden State as the defining battleground of the conflict’s lowest points and ...

Like every great Ken Burns documentary, the letters and writings of the people involved are an important part of telling the story. The American Revolution is no exception, and the actors involved are ...