A common misconception about the first president of the United States is that he had wooden teeth. It is certainly true that ...

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

Follow the journey of 15-year-old Joseph Plumb Martin, who enlisted in 1776. Corporate funding for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by The Better ...

According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart. By Ted Widmer Ted Widmer is the author of “Lincoln on the ...

Smoke curls gently out of the wetu. Under a bright blue sky, a warrior holds up a spear with a fish pierced on the end. The gray fish has an "x" for an eye, no fins and a toothy grin — the artistic ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says ...

CONCORD, N.H. — In the American Revolution, Granite Staters had to pick a side. Their decisions led to vastly divergent fates for loyalists who aligned with the British compared to patriots siding ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. Staff ...