The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

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 ...

SEATTLE, WA. — The late Jim Thorpe is regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time, and for good reason. He was the first Native American to become an Olympic gold medalist. He also became an ...

More than nine years in the making, the six-part,12-hour documentary series tells the tale of the country’s founding struggle ...

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

“The American Revolution” is the opposite: enduring, not ephemeral. And it accomplishes what Gerbner urges: “To move past a ...

When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely ...

Pauline Sharp, Kanza, at Iⁿ'zhúje'waxóbe, the sacred big red rock at Allegawaho Memorial Park near Council Grove. Pauline Sharp, Kanza, at Iⁿ'zhúje'waxóbe, the sacred big red rock at Allegawaho ...

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 ...

November has begun. Besides the chillier weather, preparation for the holidays, football season, and searching for the perfect Thanksgiving turkey (or Tofurky), it’s also Native American Heritage ...