Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The American Revolution," a new docuseries by Ken Burns, details America's journey toward freedom and independence during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has long been a chronicler of the American experience. He talks with John Dickerson about his ...

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made America into the most liberal, democratic and modern nation in the world.” ...

Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...

Ken Burns reflects on reconnecting with America’s founding to rediscover our shared purpose. Ken Burns urges us to move beyond nostalgia and sentimentality to engage with America's founding truly. By ...

Directors Sarah Botstein and Ken Burns look at a bust of George Washington made by Jean-Antoine Houdon at George Washington's Mount Vernon on Oct. 29, 2025, in Mount Vernon, Va. Credit - Matt ...

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 ...

On the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival on March 12, a group of historians and scholars discussed the meaning ...

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 ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...