Ken Burns's The American Revolution is making its way on PBS on November 16, 2025. This six part documentary explores America's fight for independence, people and ideas that helped shape a new nation.

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 ...

Reprint of the 1877 and 1881 editions respectively. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!35507~!0#focus ...

Back in 2015, documentarian Ken Burns was still working on his Vietnam War series when he decided the next project would be on the American Revolution. Soon, ten years after Burns first felt that ...

From debt-driven taxes to colonial defiance, Britain’s policies after 1763 united diverse colonies in resistance, laying the ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

PBS to Launch Largest Outreach Effort in Network’s History, with Filmmaker Events in 25-plus Markets, Station Engagement Across the Country, Extensive Educational Materials, and Partnerships with ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - On the Fourth of July, America celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It announced to the world, 'America is a free and sovereign nation.' But that declaration ...

The ironies abound. As the United States looks forward to the 250th anniversary of American independence, the sitting president is pictured wearing a crown and describing himself as a king, apparently ...