In honor of the nation's 250th birthday, USA TODAY is spending a year retracing some of the journeys that helped define the American identity.

On July 4th, 2026, America will celebrate its 250th birthday. The United States is the world's oldest and still evolving experiment in democracy.

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. PBS may be worse for wear following federal defunding, but public TV documentarian Ken Burns remains at work with ...

You can watch it for free with a trial of DirecTV. The 12-hour documentary series looks at the founding of the United States and its eight-year War for Independence from Britain. The series has been ...

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

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 ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution unfolds across six nights, tracing how Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley helped turn ...

Having entered the kindergarten the year Nixon and Kissinger entered the White House, I remember classmates thrilling to their foreign policy adventures: The undeniable fun of ping-pong diplomacy, the ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

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

This film uses archival clips and documents to examine the way climate change evolved from nonpartisan topic to divisive ...

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