The United States of America has been at war throughout most of its 250-year existence. From the War of Independence right ...

The American Revolution, the new six-part documentary from filmmaker Ken Burns, is set to premiere on Sunday, November 16 and ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has long been a chronicler of the American experience. He talks with John Dickerson about his latest film for PBS, "The American Revolution"; the importance of studying ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Ken Burns spent nearly 10 years creating his latest documentary about America's founding era. The filmmaker says the ...

The White House Effect” examines the first Bush administration and the events leading up to a pivotal climate summit in Rio de Janeiro.

The stories of Minnesota’s Southeast Asian communities and the state’s military veterans will be highlighted during a two-day ...

Our great grandfather hadn’t crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 112 years — but he was about to.  Maybe not all of him, but a ...

Between 1989 and 1990, seven men were found shot along Florida highways. The killer was Aileen Wuornos — a hitchhiking sex ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we collectively believe they do. Every nation is defined and shaped by the stories ...

(Reuters) - Dick Cheney, a driving force behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, was considered by presidential historians ...

I interviewed every president since Nixon. Our nation's identity and future have always been on a fierce and extraordinary ...