Kane Hall offered a screening of “These Sacred Hills” on Nov. 6, sponsored by the Burke Museum, the Nature Conservancy ...

Gillingham, a professor of Latin American history at Northwestern University, writes with sparkling verve and reveals Mexican history in all its kaleidoscopic complexity. He doesn’t shy away from the ...

It was in a freelance writing capacity that she worked on the PBS Utah documentary, “Hollywood in Utah,” which won a 2025 Southwest Rocky Mountain Emmy Award on Nov. 8 in a ceremony held at the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents the online Native Cinema Showcase, celebrating short films by Indigenous filmmakers of the Western Hemisphere. The museum’s annual ...

Pope Formosus was charged with being unworthy of the pontificate, of violating canon law, of perjury, and of serving as a ...

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of ...

In case you don’t have the time to watch the entire 12 hours right now, I’ve got you covered. (Though I highly recommend that ...

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 ...

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz ...

Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.