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

The event invited people from across the country to special presentations and guest speakers sharing how the county played a ...

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

Local and state leaders mark a construction milestone in Fayetteville as the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation ...

Released on the eve of America’s semiquincentennial, “The American Revolution” retells the story of the United States’ ...

Director Someetharan’s Neelira, starring Naveen Chandra, Roopa Koduvayur and Sananth Reddy, is a chamber drama set in the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

A new PBS documentary, Henry David Thoreau, reveals the Thoreau often softened in high school textbooks — the abolitionist, antiwar dissident, and ecological thinker whose ideas still challenge a ...