From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...

The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more ...

Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and ...

“The American Revolution” is the opposite: enduring, not ephemeral. And it accomplishes what Gerbner urges: “To move past a ...

As he prepares to release his latest series on the Revolutionary War, the filmmaker reflects on the history of the U.S. and his quest for truth.

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Take a deep dive into the American Revolution. Learn more about the new documentary from Ken Burns, GBH's America 250 collection, and other storiest that will further your knowledge about our nation's ...

The World Socialist Web Site is publishing here Chapter 10 of Leon Trotsky’s work “The Permanent Revolution,” written in 1929. We publish this chapter as a supplementary text to the lecture given by ...