The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...
Ahead of the quarter-millennial anniversary of the American Revolution, Ken Burns spoke with Jeffrey H. Anderson of the American Main Street Initiative and John Fonte of the Hudson Institute about his ...
"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history ...
Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...
Ken Burns, with co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, gives us an in-depth look at the war for independence that ...
The directors and writer of the six-part docuseries say the revolution is 'wrapped in a lot of mythology and nostalgia,' ...
On June 17, AEI’s J. Joel Alicea, Yuval Levin, Gary J. Schmitt, and Adam J. White hosted a symposium examining the American Revolution’s role in shaping American constitutionalism. The first panel ...
Told over six installments, "The American Revolution" is an expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and ...
The American Revolution and the founding founders are two parts of U.S. history celebrated on July 4. But two centuries later, 1776 was a rallying cry for rioters disrupting a national election at the ...
One of the primary objectives of 'The American Revolution' is to challenge the simplified mythologies surrounding this pivotal moment in history. Burns emphasizes the need to move beyond tales like ...
A rare printing of the Declaration of Independence on display at Sotheby's in New York City in January. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images ) The ironies abound. As the United States looks forward ...