From the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the American ...

The celebrated filmmaker screened an episode from his new documentary and spoke about the episode in a subsequent conversation about the American Revolution and the United States’s 250th anniversary.

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The PBS docuseries, co-directed by Sarah Botstein, argues America’s birth was less a unified fight for independence than a ...

Oklahoma powered America in the 20th century through booms and busts. But the flowing black gold also spawned swindling and ...

Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its radicalism is taking on a fresh charge. By Jennifer Schuessler See more of our ...

Back in 1776, the East Bronx wasn’t the same East Bronx we know it today. It was a part of Westchester County, and the borough saw its own share of action between the American and British forces. In ...

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 ...

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On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it's worth asking: What was the American Revolution actually about? We all remember the broad strokes we learned in school: Independence ...

There’s never been another country like America. That’s not mere patriotic hyperbole for our 250th anniversary. It’s historical fact. But many of us have never really understood it. Or maybe we forgot ...