Confederate forces burned Pinhook Bridge twice in 1863 during two separate Civil War battles in Lafayette. Today, most ...

On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical ...

The pending Supreme Court decision threatens to gut section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and minority representation nationwide ...

Robbins secured the traveling rights to the Missionary Ridge Cyclorama in 1889 and took it around the country, starting in ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

From stunning voter turnouts in local races to the emergence of principled lawmakers crossing the aisle, these 15 political ...

Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

To dispel the idea that the American Revolution refers only to a war, we're going to start our look at Ken Burns' latest epic, "The American Revolution," at the end, after the war is won. In a 1787 ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does not want to talk about President Trump. Burns’s 12-hour ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

With the assistance of advanced remote sensing technology and the help of a determined local historian, archaeologists believe they’ve discovered the location of two mass graves of Black Union ...