As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

Ken Burns, the filmmaker known for his award-winning Civil War documentary, was mocked for referring to America's current climate as "the most fraught time" in the history of the Republic.

The documentarian will hold a live talk at Seattle's McCaw Hall on July 14, during which a sneak preview of the documentary ...

The Civil War explores the most important conflict in our nation’s history.

The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS Ken Burns is exploring the moment that started it all. Just before Burns'The ...

Now, he’s going back to the beginning. Burns’s upcoming documentary series, out later this year, will explore the Revolutionary War with a focus on the lesser-known characters of the revolution.

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual historical record—photographs, diaries, speeches—to "let the war tell its own story ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Civil Rights The war economy offered possibilities to some minorities that had previously been unimaginable, but Japanese Americans faced discrimination and relocation.