Cliff's career peaked with "The Harder They Come," but, after a break in the late 1970s, he worked for decades with the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Veterans and members of the military joined Wagner College officials, staffers and alumns, District Attorney Michael McMahon and the Rolling Thunder motorcycle group at the 15th ...

Tulane unveiled the lineup for the fifth annual New Orleans Book Festival, hosting over 100 nationally acclaimed and ...

A full half-century has now passed since the conventional American reckoning of “The End of the Vietnam War.” 2025 marks the ...

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of ...

Ken Burns. Photo by Stephanie Berger. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will be awarded the first Commonwealth Prize, an honor for patriotic service or extraordinary and lasting contributions to the ...

That’s two years longer than the actual length of the American Revolution, but the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army ...

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the ...

Happy Native American Heritage Month. Two weeks ago I lectured at a local college in Grand Rapids, my hometown. After I introduced myself I asked the 13 students how many knew what is celebrated ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...