PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

Ken Burns' new "American Revolution" series premieres Nov. 16 on PBS, filmed across 100 locations with storytelling from ...

The American Revolution was one of the most significant events in world history because it created a "new thing called a citizen," iconic filmmaker Ken Burns told CBS News, as the nation celebrates ...

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

Declaration of Independence was signed. The Museum of the American Revolution is gearing up for the celebration.

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

As the nation marks 250 years since the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which ignited the American Revolution, one mystery refuses to die. Who fired the first shot? It’s been called "the shot heard ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Rick Atkinson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, recently visited the Virginia Museum of History and Culture to discuss his new book about the American Revolution. "The Fate of the Day ...