In 1940 the first Civil War Roundtable was founded in Chicago. The Lehigh Valley’s is named the Civil War Roundtable of ...

Today in History for Nov. 19: In 1794, the United States and Britain signed the "Jay Treaty" concerning trade boundaries and commerce.

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Documentarian Ken Burns talks about what he learned during the making of his latest project, “The American Revolution.” ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does not want to talk about President Trump. Burns’s 12-hour ...

A documentary about renowned playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez has won the seventh annual $200,000 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize. Directed by David Alvarado, “American Pachuco: The ...

Ken Burns and I have just met at Bowling Green, the tiny park at the bottom tip of Manhattan, when he brings up “all the lives that have been through here.” He doesn’t mean the tourists lined up to ...

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. After screening excerpts of Ken Burns’ documentary “The American ...

PROVIDENCE – Filmmaker Ken Burns will present two panel discussions in Rhode Island Thursday, Oct. 16, in advance of his upcoming PBS documentary “The American Revolution,” which premiers Nov. 16.

On Idaho Today, host Mellisa Paul sits down in an exclusive Zoom interview with legendary filmmaker Ken Burns ahead of the premiere of his sweeping new series The American Revolution. Drawing on his ...