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 ...

Ken Burns' latest opus is solid storytelling. It also highlights the costliness of our ignorance about our history.

As he prepares to release his latest series on the Revolutionary War, the filmmaker reflects on the history of the U.S. and ...

Greenbrier State Park, just a short drive away, features a 42-acre lake with a beach area perfect for cooling off during Maryland’s humid summers. The park’s facilities include picnic areas, ...

The 12-hour, six-part PBS docuseries, which premieres Sunday, Nov. 16, shows how our democracy was built, brick by brick.

The Civil War,' Ken Burns brings the Revolutionary War to life in a 12-hour, six-night documentary epic, a curtain-raiser to ...

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

Monuments,” a new exhibition at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary, juxtaposes toppled statues and paintings by living artists—and is ...

Ken Burns' The American Revolution is a lot of what you might expect but also something quite different, Deadline's TV critic says.

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

The American Revolution” is rich with detail and vibrant with intellectual filmmaking that seeks to serve as a definitive ...

Back in 1990, Ken Burns made his reputation with "The Civil War," a sprawling, mutlipart documentary that caused a sensation, ...