Think you know American history? Maybe it’s time to reconsider. The story of the United States is far more complicated, painful, and fascinating than what most of us learned in school. Too often, the ...

A new Ken Burns documentary highlights Rhode Island's significant contributions to the American Revolution. Key figures like Governor Stephen Hopkins and General Nathanael Greene played pivotal roles ...

Takeaways from Ken Burns’ documentary “The American Revolution,” now streaming on PBS: History is not clean and simple. Events do not unfold in a linear and logical fashion that leads to inevitable ...

The American Revolution, the new six-part, 12-hour documentary series directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, will now stream for free until the end of the year, when the film will be ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

Duse Productions will present a new staging of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, launching as an Equity Approved Showcase on January 28 at the American Theatre of Actors. While the initial ...

The John Alden Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), is excited to announce the opening of the American Revolution Experience at the Midland Mall on Dec. 21. The ...

The Adams Presidential Center in Quincy is hosting a free event about the PBS documentary "The American Revolution." Award-winning historians Gordon Wood and Friederike Baer, who were featured in the ...

NYC’s November election led to major land-use reforms, reducing the City Council’s power to block affordable housing projects. Despite opposition, the changes received strong support, paving the way ...

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 ...

In a recent interview, Ken Burns said that the American Revolution was the most important human event since the birth of Christ. While historians (and theologians) may debate this claim, what cannot ...

Spain joins the war, but not as an ally of American independence – as an enemy of Britain. In June 1779, Spain joins France in the war against England. As empire with colonies in America, Spain does ...