An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the American Revolution. It will air for six consecutive nights and will ...

The film is a comprehensive and definitive history of the American Civil War, and the recipient of 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmys and two Grammys. Heralded as an ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

In Les Damnés, Roberto Minervini plunges into the heart of the winter of 1862, where American soldiers in the midst of the American Civil War question the meaning of their mission in uncharted lands.

EXCLUSIVE: The name Walter White isn't as familiar to Americans as those of Thurgood Marshall or W.E.B. Du Bois, but it should be – to anyone who cares about history, and the cause of racial justice ...

During the Civil War, the young United States dealt with an unprecedented and overwhelming number of dead. The Ric Burns film is based on the book "This Republic of Suffering" by Harvard President ...

It’s not merely that our current era doesn’t compare to the Civil War; it’s that it doesn’t compare to much else, either. “This is the most fraught time, I think, in the history of our ...

A 1915 silent film about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island.

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...