Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation of “self-evident truths” in the Declaration of Independence was a turning point in world ...

Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" made PBS history as the six-part documentary landed as the No. 10 most-watched streaming acquired title.

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. His son says Arnett died in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and ...

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who went on to become one, himself, as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his ...

1 to 2:30 p.m. – Wreaths Across America ceremony at Evergreen Cemetery, community invited to place wreaths on the headstones of all veterans interred in the cemetery; call (540) 460-5784 for more ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

In real life, 2025 has been a chaotic year. We've navigated the beginning of a divisive presidential term, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, witnessed a pope from Chicago get elected, a ...

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

There’s never a bad time to explore and consider the origin story of the United States, but now feels like a particularly relevant period for reexamining who we are and what we stand for as a nation.