Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1990, a fresh-faced documentarian managed to do the impossible. Over the course of nine September nights on PBS, Ken Burns got ...
Texas A&M - San Antonio associate professor James Finley also served as a consultant on "Henry David Thoreau." ...
"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 ...
Artist Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 painting of Gen. George Washington leading his troops across the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776. Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour ...
Ken Burns has produced a documentary about the Revolutionary War that sets a new standard for historical documentaries. This has been said of Burns before, at least since “The Civil War” premiered in ...
Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...
"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 ...