NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to filmmaker Ken Burns, an alumnus of Hampshire College, about the school's plan to permanently close at the end of the fall semester.

Hampshire College, a small progressive liberal arts school in western Massachusetts known for notable alumni like filmmaker ...

Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, will close after the 2026 fall semester, becoming at least the sixth university this year to announce plans to shutter or be acquired. The school, known ...

In an exclusive interview with KNWA/FOX24, Ken Burns, an American documentary filmmaker sat down to discuss how his work ...

Calling for connection among humans who stand to benefit from unity was a recurring theme Friday during Ken Burns' appearance ...

Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...

PHILADELPHIA − Standing outside Independence Hall, the building in which America's forebears signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, even iconic documentarian Ken Burns can't help but ...

Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life. In an interview with “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, the filmmaker challenged how the nation ...

Texas A&M - San Antonio associate professor James Finley also served as a consultant on "Henry David Thoreau." ...

An institution and genre of movies and television unto himself, Ken Burnshas been a mainstay in documentary filmmaking for over 40 years. His body of work is vast, but it still can't keep up with the ...

"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history of the war of independence from Britain and the beginnings of the American ...