"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history ...

The American Revolution was one of the most radical acts in human history, casting aside centuries of monarchical despotism ...

George Mason University Political Scientist Jack Goldstone joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Ken Burns, with co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, gives us an in-depth look at the war for independence that ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Revolution” is a singular achievement, offering new perspectives and insights on the uprising against British rule that ...

Told over six installments, "The American Revolution" is an expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and ...

Simon Schama is best known to American audiences as the snarky British host of the BBC's epic 15-part series A History of Britain. But the expatriate professor of art history at Columbia University is ...

Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he ...

possibility of directing much of the rebellious energy against England and her local officials. It was not a conscious conspiracy, but an accumulation of tactical responses. After 1763, with England ...

Bruce Banner asks would it have mattered if Britain had won the American Revolution? And Rich Johnston gets a history ...