SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB) - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns kicked off Ringling College of Art and Design’s Town Hall Speaker ...

FREE TO READ] The filmmaker is on a mission to strip the story of American independence of mythology and nostalgia ...

Countless historians, over the years, have lamented that those who forget or ignore history are condemned to repeat it. Documentarian Ken Burns, now 72, shares that view. But in a late December ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

The six-episode, 12-hour extravaganza, The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, closes with a famous passage written by the esteemed Philadelphia physician, Dr.

January 11, 2026 - White House Border Czar Tom Homan, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), Richard ...

It was 1860 and America was at an inflection point. It wasn't just slavery that was on trial: the Founding Fathers' vision itself was up for grabs. A growing segment of America’s population—mostly in ...

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

The debate started on Saturday (January 10) after a post on the social media app BlueSky about the cereal brand Man Cereal, ...

To paraphrase Monty Python, “What have the Romans ever done for the American Revolution?” On the night of December 25, 1776, in the midst of a fierce winter storm, General George Washington and his ...