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

An interesting Wikipedia compilation of over 1000 films based on historical facts teaches us many things about history....

Indigenous history, resiliency and sovereignty take center stage in WKAR’s newest documentary series Before America. Each ...

"As I was revising my little book on the Battle of Bennington earlier this year, I wondered how Burns and Atkinson would ...

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made ...

Last week we have seen Prussia shock the European theatre under Frederick the Great. As he passed away childless, his nephew, ...

Ken Burns’s new documentary series on the American Revolution includes history often left out of textbooks: the economic and ...

The filmmaker of the new National Geographic documentary talks about her observational approach and defining success beyond ...

Victor Davis Hanson blows up "the myth" used by Ken Burns to claim the Founding Fathers got the idea for democracy from the Iroquois.

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

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), ...

Burns told a Dallas audience in June that his treatment of the American creation story includes obscure characters and perspectives.