At the crossroads of progress and justice, Missouri shaped the path of a divided nation. Crossroads of a Nation, Part II: Rifts, Roads and Civil Rights explores Missouri's journey from Civil War ...

Ken Burns' latest opus is solid storytelling. It also highlights the costliness of our ignorance about our history.

Since then, Snopes has investigated the histories of a range of monuments across the country, including our previous coverage ...

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

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Nov. 23, as w ...

Bullet holes from 250 years ago are still visible today at the House in the Horseshoe State Historic Site. They were left ...

In this interview, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina discusses the connection he sees between today’s politics and the ...

"The American Revolution" is a sweeping, six-part PBS docuseries that feels like a confrontation of how America's founding ideals were born ...

A Carnegie Hall Tribute,” bringing the U.S. WWI story to life through the Fitzgerald novel, "The Great Gatsby." ...

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

Ken Burns' The American Revolution is a lot of what you might expect but also something quite different, Deadline's TV critic says.