The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

Anti-Catholicism was not a central force driving the colonists to revolt, but it played a role, shaping their political ...

"The American Revolution" documentary series by Ken Burns premieres Nov. 16. Two San Diego professors sat down with KPBS' Amita Sharma to discuss what the American Revolution still teaches us today.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath ...

Ken Burns is back with his latest opus "The American Revolution," coming out at a fraught time not just for PBS but the political system at large.

Ken Burns new PBS documentary reminds us how bloody an messy the revolution was. When the myths are stripped away, though, it ...

Some historians have criticized Ken Burns’ docuseries The American Revolution for allegedly overstating Iroquois influence on ...

The 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze titled “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Ken Burns is back with “The American Revolution,” a six-part, roughly 12-hour documentary that debuts on WTTW-Ch. 11 and ...

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more ...

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

More than nine years in the making, the six-part,12-hour documentary series tells the tale of the country’s founding struggle ...

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 ...