Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, ...

NEW YORK -- Prize-winning military historian Rick Atkinson, a comic book fan growing up, hadn't imagined his own work being ...

Actor Dick Terhune will bring Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," to life in a one-man performance at the Palace Theater.

The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author and screenwriter Geoffrey C. Ward, known for his longtime collaboration with filmmaker Ken Burns, was recently interviewed about their most recent work, "The ...

The Founding Fathers were the first human beings to assert that people were citizens, and had the right to elect their ...

Take a deep dive into the American Revolution. Learn more about the new documentary from Ken Burns, GBH's America 250 collection, and other storiest that will further your knowledge about our nation's ...

An unemployed Prussian drillmaster named Baron von Steuben clutches his (largely fabricated) letters of recommendation as he awaits a job interview in Pennsylvania. Molly Brant, a Haudenosaunee ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), ...