Director Ken Burns is well known for his often-multipart PBS films about varied segments of the ongoing history of America, ...

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

A majority of U.S. citizens believe the country is on the path to a second civil war because of the polarizing nature of ...

This narrative explores the Battle of Gettysburg as one of history’s defining turning points, tracing the conflict from the strategic movements that preceded it to the brutal, chaotic fighting across ...

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

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. - A college professor in Monroe County is set to make an appearance on the History Channel. East Stroudsburg University Professor of History Michael P. Gray, Ph.D., who is an ...

“The American Soldier” explores a history more than 250 years old and still in the making. From the early settlers and the Revolutionary War against Britain, soldiers have played a key role in the ...

From Harpers Ferry, Fort Sumter, and First Bull Run to Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg, THE HISTORY CHANNEL PRESENTS: THE CIVIL WAR captures the most legendary Civil War battles in brilliant detail.

Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...