“The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” (premiering tonight on PBS). And in 1776, the awful violence of war was ...

A battle lasting less than an hour south of Norfolk in December 1775 between British forces and colonial militia was a ...

The Continental Army engages the British in the last major battle in the North of the Revolution. A solar eclipse plunges the colonies into darkness in June 1778 as the Continental Army mobilizes from ...

When I interviewed the editors in August, I knew I wanted to read “A Continued Clap of Thunder,” published this fall by the ...

General Horatio Gates' force clashes with the British, beginning the Battle of Saratoga. General Horatio Gates and his Patriot forces are dug in along the Bemis Heights just south of Saratoga, and the ...

Hugh B. Price’s family den located inside of his tastefully decorated colonial style home in New Rochelle, New York, is ...

New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns has chronicled some of the most important moments and people in American history – the Vietnam war, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin and the Civil War to name a few.

Often overlooked, the French "Charleville" infantry musket was one of the most significant longarms of the 18th and 19th ...

A new six-part documentary series from Ken Burns titled "The American Revolution" is set to premiere on Nov. 16. The film explores the eight-year war, which Burns considers the most consequential ...

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. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...