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 ...

The American Revolution, the new six-part documentary from filmmaker Ken Burns, is set to premiere on Sunday, November 16 and ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. PBS may be worse for wear following federal defunding, but public TV documentarian Ken Burns remains at work with ...

On November 3, 1948, Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his first speech at the United Nations, outlining India’s independent foreign ...