Everyone needs to watch Ken Burns’ documentary on the American Revolution because it teaches history exactly as it should be ...

When high school students in the West Hartford Public Schools district study World War II in the coming year, they will learn ...

The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished.” Cultural ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series on our country's first — and, he argues, ongoing — revolution aims to ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

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 ...

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S. history. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic In mentioning Ken Burns‘ ...

What is America but a history of violence? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness don’t come for free. Our forefathers knew that; thus, blood has spilled across this land to create a nation where ...

In the last year, two fan-favorite gay romances on screen were those of Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in “All of Us Strangers” and Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist in “Challengers.” So, it’s fitting that ...