Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

In the new Ken Burns documentary, an old myth—held by the left and right—is repeated: that chaos led to the need for the ...

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on ...

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