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 ...

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 ...

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...

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

TRUMP’S FIELD TEST: When Trump dropped by the Commanders-Lions game yesterday afternoon, he became the first president to ...

In his new documentary series “The American Revolution,” the prolific filmmaker depicts a nation created by violence. Still, ...

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights the causes, the major battles, and the outcome of the American Civil War — ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION  Premieres Sunday, November 16 at 8:00 pm A new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

Despite the region's progressive values, authoritarianism remains a threat. And it's people, not politicians, fighting it ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

A Supreme Court ruling next year may weaken the Voting Rights Act and thwart Democratic plans to fight back against ...