The new Ken Burns documentary "The American Revolution" premieres Nov. 16 on PBS (check local listings). Celebrities including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Ethan Hawke voice historical figures in the ...

Philadelphia falls, but the American victory at Saratoga allows France to enter the war. As America braces for a third year of devastating war, British commanders launch campaigns to take Albany and ...

A powerful new documentary series from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt is set to premiere on PBS this fall. The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour series, will ...

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Washington abandons New York City and flees across New Jersey, before attacking Trenton. The Revolution, now a war for American independence, faces its toughest challenge yet as General Washington ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath and the birth of a nation in this six-part docuseries, “The American ...

This week we’re taking a deep dive into the American Revolution. As the birthplace of the Revolution, Massachusetts is at the center of a national movement to acknowledge this historic moment. Check ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Learning American history doesn’t always have to mean reading long chapters or memorizing dates. Some games can teach the same lessons in a far more engaging way. They let players see, move, and ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...

From the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the American Revolutionary War reshaped the course of history. Using Google Earth, this video ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...