American colonists oppose efforts by the British Crown and Parliament to seize greater control in North America, escalating simmering tensions over land, taxes, and sovereignty into violent ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Rhode Island historian, Bob Burke, challenges the traditional narrative, asserting the American Revolution began in Rhode Island, not Massachusetts.

N.Y., argued on Friday that the American Revolution was fought against the "billionaires" of the Founding Fathers' time.

When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says ...

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Mondays, May 18 and 25, 2026 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV Lucy Worsley investigates one of history’s most explosive break-ups: the 18th century split between Britain and its 13 ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. And in an exclusive interview, ...

Massachusetts eighth grade classrooms have until June 3 to submit videos of students reading from the Declaration of Independence for a statewide contest tied to the American Revolution’s 250th ...