The Gettysburg Film Festival kicks off on Thursday for its fourth year. This year’s festival will celebrate the nation’s ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns argued Wednesday that America’s current political divisions, while concerning, pale in comparison to those of the Revolutionary era, urging Americans to look to the ...

Burns discusses the nostalgia that defines many Americans’ understanding of the Revolutionary period and his guarded optimism for the next 250 years.

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

Ken Burns produces the first-ever documentary on Henry David Thoreau, which moves beyond famous one-liners to explore his ...

At Gettysburg, top historians unpack the uncertainty, sacrifice and surprising turns that shaped America’s fight for ...

A Bettendorf Middle School student has earned national recognition for a documentary he created. Our Quad Cities New Linda ...

PBS takes up three hours of prime time this week for a Ken Burns-produced documentary about Henry David Thoreau that is a lovely film to behold.

As spring arrives, get ready for more outdoors activities to do with friends and family. From birdwatching for migratory ...

Don Henley wrote down the name of one of the activists speaking against the development of the woods by Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, where the writer Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote his ...