Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is certainly understandable. While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political and social ...

People like to say that history repeats itself, but Ken Burns isn’t buying it. “Every event is new and unique,” documentarian Burns says. “What doesn’t change is human nature. Human nature stays the ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- Filmmaker Ken Burns views the Vietnam War as a virus that infected Americans with an array of chronic illnesses -- alienation, a lack of civil discourse, mistrust of government and ...

Ken Burns will produce a 10-12 hour documentary on Vietnam, to air in 2016, he announced earlier this afternoon. Lynn Novick, his longtime collaborator, will co-pilot the project. Burns – his landmark ...

The last in the series. I’m not sure whether this qualifies as a scoop or not, but I don’t believe I’ve seen Burns say that he plans to make a Vietnam documentary elsewhere (not that I’ve scoured all ...

The Vietnam veterans and other former Special Forces soldiers who meet every Friday at Mike Johnson’s accounting office on Perkins Road plan to watch the 10-part PBS documentary, “The Vietnam War,” ...

The Vietnam War was a long, costly and bitterly debated conflict that pitted the Communist government of North Vietnam against anti-Communist South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

Back in 2015, documentarian Ken Burns was still working on his Vietnam War series when he decided the next project would be on the American Revolution. Soon, ten years after Burns first felt that ...

This, from the introduction to this predictably exceptional book, is inarguable: “It’s been more than forty years now, and despite President [Gerald] Ford’s optimism we have never been able to put ...