These cartoons about history are great for parents to watch with their kids to explore history in a factual, fun, and ...

Louisiana Public Broadcasting has launched Louisiana’s Hidden History: Spanish Louisiana in the American Revolution, a new educational collection now available nationwide on PBS LearningMedia.

Historian Kari Winter provided opening remarks to begin her lecture on the life of Jeffrey Brace, an enslaved man who won his freedom through his service during the Revolutionary War and published his ...

This year is America’s 250th birthday but plenty of celebrations are happening ahead of July.

In honor of the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding, many historians have written some wonderful new books, digging into the social and military history of our transformation from colonies to ...

With American Jews experiencing rising antisemitism, particularly on college campuses, a growing number of Jewish high school students are considering options in Israel for college. With American Jews ...

The American Revolution, the new six-part, 12-hour documentary series directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, will now stream for free until the end of the year, when the film will be ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

"The American Revolution" the latest look at history by Ken Burns. As a young filmmaker, Burns brought his cameras to Old Sturbridge Village. American Antiquarian Society in Worcester: "You don't have ...

Have you seen Ken Burns’s series “The American Revolution” on PBS? Even if you haven’t, you might have seen the commentary that accompanied it: a scorching string of articles accusing Burns of ...

In a recent interview, Ken Burns said that the American Revolution was the most important human event since the birth of Christ. While historians (and theologians) may debate this claim, what cannot ...

When you settle in for the six-part, 12-hour storytelling of the American Revolution, you sense immediately that it won’t be another glorified review of Founding Fathers and candle-lit taverns.