For the past decade, filmmaker Ken Burns and his team have been delving deep into history to put together this six-part miniseries celebrating the United States of America. Forget what is in the ...
Siege of Yorktown. General Rochambeau and general Washington give last orders before an attack, October 1781. Auguste Couder (1789–1873). Artist Auguste Couder, 1836 (Photo by Pierce Archive ...
Perhaps the least commented upon feature of the dystopian Trump banners adorning parts of Washington D.C. is the red, white, ...
As a co-director of “The American Revolution,” the six-part PBS documentary that premieres on Sunday, David Schmidt seems in every sense thoroughly modern. And yet, he said in an interview, “I like to ...
Directors Sarah Botstein and Ken Burns look at a bust of George Washington made by Jean-Antoine Houdon at George Washington's Mount Vernon on Oct. 29, 2025, in Mount Vernon, Va. THE AMERICAN ...