Ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary, iconic documentarian Ken Burns centers the “world-changing” events of July 4, 1776, ...

An in-depth look at the premiere episode of Ken Burns’ latest documentary The American Revolution. We examine the pivotal ...

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

The acclaimed filmmaker’s PBS documentary is a captivating look at the fear, risk and courage that forged a country ...

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

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

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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 ...

There was no plan for the dead during the American Civil War. Mass graves or leaving them where they fell would only go so far. Discover the heartbreaking fate of the fallen soldiers of the Civil War, ...

J. B. Pritzker, the gargantuan, super-sized poster boy for obesity, recently said that Trump was “trying to re-enact the Civil War. I’ve been thinking a civil war was coming for the last forty years.

TL;DR: Ubisoft cancelled a planned Assassin's Creed game set during the Reconstruction Era due to socio-political sensitivities and backlash from previous titles. The game would have featured a freed ...

The game was meant to take place during the Reconstruction era, and would have featured a Black assassin confronting the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...