Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath and the birth of a nation in this six-part docuseries, “The American ...

Burns requested photographs of a handful of the AAS' collection items to use in the documentary, including newspapers and a ...

Delegates from all thirteen colonies convene for the Second Continental Congress at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. The representatives remain divided — some hopeful for reconciliation ...

The American Revolution will be a war that will pit brother against brother – and birth a nation. The American Revolution will become not just a local war for independence, but a war between great ...

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We tend to think we know a lot about the Revolutionary War since we learned “the greatest hits” in school—the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere’s famous ride, Washington’s crossing of the Delaware. It’s ...

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

Ken Burns' latest project is an expansive documentary about the history of the American Revolution. Premiering Nov. 16 on PBS and airing over six consecutive nights, The American Revolution starts ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Historians who appear in Ken Burns documentary, 'The American Revolution' will talk Dec. 9 at free event. You can attend ...

Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...