Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

The program features Appalachian carols, sea island spirituals, vintage New England holiday standards, along with Hanukkah ...

The Emmy winner reflects on trips to the city and its many layers of history, from waterfront landmarks to a groundbreaking ...

In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

The hound of the Baskervilles, his head shrouded in a phosphorus glow, howls at midnight off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Or so it would seem.

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

This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...

Burns' new PBS docuseries features a star-studded voice cast, including Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. The post The most famous ...

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