An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...

In mentioning Ken Burns' upcoming The American Revolution to casual observers, the most frequent response has been a variation on: "Wait. Hasn't he done that already?" The short answer is "No." The ...

The American Revolution will be a war that will pit brother against brother – and birth a nation. The American Revolution will become not just a local war for independence, but a war between great ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Back in 1990, Ken Burns made his reputation with “The Civil War,” a sprawling, multipart documentary that caused a ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...

The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The seeds of the war were the growing ...

What do you think you know about the American Revolution? Nearly 250 years later, as we continue to debate what the Founders intended, we may find at times that we’ve been led astray by legend, ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. PBS may be worse for wear following federal defunding, but public TV documentarian Ken Burns remains at work with ...

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished.” Cultural ...