In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant ...

The veteran documentarian returns with a six-part series on PBS that takes a slow and sanctimonious approach to the nation’s ...

The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

"The American Revolution" is a sweeping, six-part PBS docuseries that feels like a confrontation of how America's founding ideals were born ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

This narrative explores the Battle of Gettysburg as one of history’s defining turning points, tracing the conflict from the strategic movements that preceded it to the brutal, chaotic fighting across ...

Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer, has been posthumously admitted to the New York State Bar.

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

Author Robert Watson provided a short overview about the Civil War during the summer of 1864 and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by Confederate forces. The National Civil War Museum in ...

At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State William H. Seward, who – according to historians – told the Seneca leader the ...

A bill to dedicate a stretch of M-22 in Peshawbestown to Native American volunteer Civil War soldiers of Company K remai ...