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 ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution unfolds across six nights, tracing how Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley helped turn rebellion ...

In November, join us for Revolutionary November as Ken Burns’ The American Revolution brings America’s founding home to the ...

The core goal of the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping was clear enough: bring the temperature down and strike some ...

Since the 1920s, Arab–American relations have been one of the most significant aspects of international politics in the Arab world. The United States has long raised the banners of ...

The City of Birmingham’s annual public Veterans Day Wreath-Laying Ceremony, co-hosted by the Piety Hill Chapter of the ...

Today, we celebrate the 290th birthday of President John Adams, a Founding Father whose intellect, integrity, and devotion to country helped secure ...