The 12-hour docuseries highlights nearly 150 characters and 36 battle sequences that range from the well-known, like Bunker ...

Explore the truths behind Civil War and slavery myths that persist in America and understand the real history behind them.

The six-part, 12-hour series aims to bring depth and complexity to the founding of the United States by using 400 first-person accounts.

Ahead of the PBS production's premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their ...

Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour "The American Revolution," premiering Nov. 16-21 on PBS.

Maxine Bryant, Ph.D. shares her opinion on the stories that established the American mythology and the truth needed to be ...

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

Ken Burns has produced a documentary about the Revolutionary War that sets a new standard for historical documentaries.

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 ...

This visual journey maps every major front, campaign, and turning point of the Civil War using detailed Google Earth animation.

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

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the Trump administration of “inventing a new eternal war” after the Pentagon deployed the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, its largest warship, into ...