PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

Veterans Day is observed each year on November 11, and these battlefields offer visitors a more in-depth understanding of our ...

Visit interesting Civil War sites, sip craft beer at local breweries, and fly in WWII planes in this small Virginia town that ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...

Grant gives opportunity to step into history Juniors and seniors from Cambria Heights High School in Patton recently embarked ...

A monument in “old” St. Joseph Cemetery in Bedford is undergoing restoration. Along with patching, repainting, landscaping, and installing new lights, two new flags were hoisted up: an American flag ...

In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

The other vision — an animating force inside the Trump administration — is exclusive and ethnonationalist. Vice President JD ...

In the span of 16 years in the back half of the 19th century, Americans watched as two of their presidents were struck down ...

Though the town itself is remarkably tiny, this Georgia destination is home to a national historic site that offers ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we collectively believe they do. Every nation is defined and shaped by the stories ...