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

Ken Burns has come in for some deserved criticism for pushing the line, in his new documentary on the American Revolution, that the Founding Fathers got their ideas about confederative government from ...

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

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 ...

Reflecting on how political persecution changed her own life, Grant said she sees echoes of McCarthyism in today’s politics.

The congressional anti-communist hearings of the 1940s are a reminder that freedom of speech today is even more fragile than ...

Watch an extended clip from the Julian Assange documentary 'The Six Billion Dollar Man,' an Oscar contender directed by ...

Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop ...

HBO's documentary looking at the $3-billion active shooter preparedness industry amplifies the seriousness and the banality ...