John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of ...
The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...
Pope Formosus was charged with being unworthy of the pontificate, of violating canon law, of perjury, and of serving as a ...
“The American Revolution” is the opposite: enduring, not ephemeral. And it accomplishes what Gerbner urges: “To move past a ...
Ahead of the PBS production's premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their ...
How do you like your historical drama? 'Death by Lightning' and Ken Burns' 'The American Revolution' take wildly different ...
In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...
Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz ...
From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...
More than nine years in the making, the six-part,12-hour documentary series tells the tale of the country’s founding struggle ...
The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...
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