Ken Burns' latest documentary, "The American Revolution," was financially supported by the Better Angels Society. The Better Angels Society is a nonprofit that has raised over $100 million for Burns ...

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), ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

It is important for all of us, especially our young people, to have an appreciation of these multi-dimensional American ...

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

The Founders didn’t model us on the Six Nations, and George Washington didn’t tomahawk a Frenchman. Ihad intended to watch the new Ken Burns miniseries on the American Revolution and report on its ...