Ken Burns new PBS documentary reminds us how bloody an messy the revolution was. When the myths are stripped away, though, it ...

History’s gears are lubricated by gore. Witness America’s Revolutionary War, whose continuing reverberations have done more ...

By Vince Bzdek What is most striking about Ken Burns’ extraordinary new PBS documentary on the American Revolution is how ...

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and ...

The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” ...

Ken Burns' latest docuseries, "The American Revolution," explores the United States' bloody and hardwon origin story.

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of ...

The directors and writer of the six-part docuseries say the revolution is 'wrapped in a lot of mythology and nostalgia,' ...

Pulitzer-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward talks with Dalton Delan about his new book and Ken Burns’ PBS series “The ...

In case you don’t have the time to watch the entire 12 hours right now, I’ve got you covered. (Though I highly recommend that ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...