As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

Throughout most of its nearly 250-year history, the United States has been involved in conflict somewhere on Earth. While US history frequently casts a positive light on the nation’s wars and other ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

The United States has been involved in constant warfare since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The country’s longest-running war in its history ended only last year with the withdrawal of troops from ...

(WTAP) -On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil ...

In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

Ken Burns' The American Revolution is a lot of what you might expect but also something quite different, Deadline's TV critic says.

While patriots fought against the British in the American Revolution 250 years ago on the East Coast, people in the San Diego region were on a parallel track of new beginnings and their own rebellion.