The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

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The 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze titled “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Ken Burns is back with “The American ...

A powerful new documentary series from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt is set to premiere on PBS this fall. The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour series, will ...

In 1848, inspired by the wave of revolutions sweeping Europe, Hungarians rose against Habsburg rule demanding independence, a constitution, and civil rights. Led by Lajos Kossuth, they briefly ...

What’s the best way to build a barricade? A carriage or wagon is a good start, heaved over to form a sturdy base. Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the bulwark ...

The Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, in partnership with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, will host a special screening of the new Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution on Oct. 21 at ...

It may be difficult to see ourselves as Pharaohs or Caesars, but the enduring (and romantic) image of long-haired radicals storming the barricades is very familiar. The ideological battle lines of ...

In “Revolutionary Spring,” the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark argues for the lasting impact of the uprisings that engulfed Europe in 1848. By Alexander Zevin When you purchase an independently ...