As Americans gather together with family and friends for the Thanksgiving weekend, many will likely have partisan differences. That just seems to be a fact of life in present-day America.

As Americans gather together with family and friends for the Thanksgiving weekend, many will likely have partisan differences. That just seems to be a fact of life in present-day America.

We should give thanks that Washington ordered the mandatory inoculation of his troops against smallpox in February 1777, after determining that the disease posed a greater threat to his troops than ...

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

Ken Burns revolutionized the way historical documentaries were made before the internet was even a common term, so it’s ...

In this modern take on the historical documentary, the mythical Thoreau – the hermit of Walden Pond, the imitator of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the nag, the saint – will give way to the human Thoreau: ...

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

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the world. Co-directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, The American ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series on our country's first - and, he argues, ongoing - revolution aims to ...