If violence erupts, that will provide an excuse to send troops to crush "insurrectionists." That strategy might work, but history shows it often doesn’t.

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights ...

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

I interviewed every president since Nixon. Our nation's identity and future have always been on a fierce and extraordinary ...

Ken Burns says his latest epic documentary shows America has been deeply divided since its earliest days, but that the story ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

Collateral damage — "injury inflicted on something other than an intended target" — is most often associated with war. It has ...

A 'heart-wrenching' film about the American Civil War starring Jude Law and Nicole Kidman alongside a slew of A-list actors ...

The U.S. is experiencing significant political division following the 2024 presidential election, raising concerns about a potential civil war. Unlike the Civil War of the 1860s, a modern conflict ...