Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more pressing time.

From there, we leapt over centuries of empire, slavery and revolution in America to arrive triumphantly at the First and ...

America’s fight for independence reverberated around the world in significant ways, which University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell explores in his engaging new book, The ...

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and ...

The War of 1812 is today a vague mystery, sometimes confused with the “1812 Overture” played at July 4 fireworks shows, but ...

In 1945, as Europe celebrated peace, Winston Churchill quietly asked his generals to plan an attack on the Soviet Union. But ...

British, Canadians, Germans and others gathered for the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Duernbach War Cemetery in ...