Gabor S. Boritt, renowned author, scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and ...

NPR's history podcast Throughline speaks with Ken Burns about his latest documentary, The American Revolution.

As if they’d leave “Clueless” off the list. Cher Horowitz fans, rejoice: Amy Heckerling’s 1995 teen comedy is one of 25 classic movies chosen this year by the Library of Congress for its National ...

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The Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution that recently aired on PBS is an unsanitized version that they didn’t teach us in school. The fight for independence was one part revolution ...

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 ...

In high school, I was exposed to the conventional wisdom concerning our nation’s founding—Battles of Lexington and Concord, Declaration of Independence, British defeat at Saratoga and Yorktown, and ...

Charleston means a lot to me in a visceral way, and it continues to play an important role in my films and in my imagination. The first time I visited was in the late 1980s when I was working on my ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... A decade in the making, Ken Burns’s much-ballyhooed The American Revolution gives the viewer a fair idea of what to expect in its opening ...

In today’s Thanksgiving episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler take issue with director Ken Burns’ assertion in his “American Revolution” documentary ...

Ken Burns revolutionized the way historical documentaries were made before the internet was even a common term, so it’s hardly a shock he’d eventually tackle America’s fight for independence in his ...