Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

TODAY — Pictured: Ken Burns on Thursday, February 13, 2020 — (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) The American Revolution, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series from ...

In mentioning Ken Burns' upcoming The American Revolution to casual observers, the most frequent response has been a variation on: "Wait. Hasn't he done that already?" The short answer is "No." The ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British ...

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, two works offer valuable, fresh views of the American Revolution. Burns’s 12-hour film sweeps across the long struggle with the ...

It was on this date, in 1774, that a group of surveyors met at the mouth of the Kanawha River to establish military bounty claims for the area. The skirmishes that resulted with the local Indian ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new ...

An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...

"The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill" by John Trumbull. The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared ...

In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S. history. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic In mentioning Ken Burns‘ ...