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

The writer of Walden has been flattened into a caricature, but Henry David Thoreau was much more than a "prophetic hermit," the directors of the documentary say.

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 ...

It would be hard to imagine today, but for a week in the fall of 1990, it seemed almost everyone in America was watching the same thing, at the same time. Nearly 40 million people tuned in for at ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled ...

Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...

The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777; By: John Trumbull; ca. 1789-1831. At the centre of the painting Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, cut off from his men, awaits the ...

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns will speak next month about the Civil War at the Tennessee Theatre. Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law and the East Tennessee Historical Society ...