Ken Burns talks to Jacobin about his new documentary, The American Revolution; the ongoing project of 1776; and why the Declaration of Independence was far more than a revolt of slaveholders and the ...

The Ken Burns effect landed at Hildene, the former home in Manchester of Robert Todd Lincoln, a son of President Abraham ...

The latest Grey Matter episode features a conversation with America's most notable storyteller, who over nearly 50 years has ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to filmmaker Ken Burns, an alumnus of Hampshire College, about the school's plan to permanently close at the end of the fall semester. Hampshire College in Western ...

The announcement on Tuesday that Hampshire College will close, after years of financial strain, reverberated through the campus community and among its well-known alums. Filmmaker Ken Burns, a 1971 ...

Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, will close after the 2026 fall semester, becoming at least the sixth university this year to announce plans to shutter or be acquired. The school, known ...

He fought in the Civil War and served for nearly three decades in Congress and the U. S. Senate from the 1870s through the 1890s. Though respected for his dedication and work ethic, his political ...

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– The Gettysburg Film Festival kicks off on Thursday for its fourth year. This year’s festival will celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary by focusing on the American ...

There’s a neon sign in Ken Burns’ editing room that captures his take on history: “It’s complicated.” The documentarian embraced that complicated narrative last month in a conversation at Harvard ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Henry David Thoreau is one of those figures whose name one may know but whose writing often boils down in the mind ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns argued Wednesday that America’s current political divisions, while concerning, pale in comparison to those of the Revolutionary era, urging Americans to look to the ...