The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

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 in ...

Pianist Jacqueline Schwab will perform her solo program “Making Magic with Ken Burns” at the Central-Hall Commons on Saturday ...

Ken Burns, whose five decades of filmmaking have ... While Burns encountered pockets of animus with his breakout historical ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.

The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” director Shaun Peterson makes a compelling case that Honest Abe was queer. The ...

Key figures in the “reign of error,” as the author labels it, included Shelby Foote, the Southern historian whom Ken Burns’ ...

A documentary on cartooning pioneers the Fleischer Brothers has won the $200,000 Library Of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize ...

By The Town of Hingham The Hingham Historical Commission is pleased to announce Ken Burns, renowned American historian and ...

But you have to go to the parks to hear those stories. People could also take another look at Ken Burns’s Civil War series, because there were some really smart things done in that film to help ...

Its use of actual footage helps viewers see what the war was like through the eyes of reporters, soldiers, members of the ...