The Real Story of America’s Pandemic School Closures,” is one woman’s effort to expose a scandal that has grown only more ...

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 ...

At 100 years old, Lee Grant knows the cost of McCarthyism better than almost anyone else on the planet. She's one of the last ...

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 ...

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

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will be awarded the first Commonwealth Prize, an honor contributions to the history and culture of Virginia.

That’s two years longer than the actual length of the American Revolution, but the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army ...

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 ...

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

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

From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...