The late composer, musician and bandleader Duke Ellington once said, ''I contend that the Negro is the creative voice of America, IS creative America, and it was a happy day when the first unhappy ...

While Burns' "Jazz" engendered a megaton of predictable grousings and red-herring side issues (New York Review of Books critic David Hadju even managed to find it anti-Semitic), the series' offshoot ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A 10-part jazz series that recently aired on PBS has triggered dramatic sales of jazz ...

After chronicling the Civil War, jazz and baseball, filmmaker Ken Burns turns his attention to "The American Revolution." His new documentary series begins airing on PBS stations on Nov. 16. KUOW is ...