Kirk Ellis explores how the infamous outlaws and their Hollywood portrayal reveal deeper truths about our national identity ...

Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose “What Hath God Wrought” became a widely acclaimed chronicle of the vast technological and social changes in the U.S. in ...

The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Suffs, about the suffragettes who won American women the right to vote, is coming to ...

From Pope Francis to Ozzy Osbourne, Dick Cheney to Virginia Giuffre, here's a roll call of some of the influential figures who died this year.

The world said goodbye to titans in sports, entertainment, politics, and beyond, and several deaths had broad ripple effects.

Trillions of dollars hang in the balance of two questions that dominated this year and loom perilously large over the next.

Events are planned nationwide for America 250, which commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, ...

The six-episode, 12-hour extravaganza, The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, closes with a famous passage written by the esteemed Philadelphia physician, Dr.

Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Through ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long ...