"From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished." Cultural historian and filmmaker Ken ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

The Music of the American Revolution: A Legacy of Sound and Spirit Before there were stadium concerts and fireworks soundtracks, there were fifes and drums echoing across battlefields. During the ...

Begins with Pete Seeger singing with a child, "Where is Thubmkin?" then tapes is a collection of Wallace House revolutionary war songs interspersed with Pete Seeger renditions of the same songs, most ...

The drum -- O! Say bonnie lass -- Poor Jack -- Fair Daphne -- Alloa House -- The lass of Patie's mill -- Patrick in the poor soldier -- The twins of Latona A collection of songs taken from the ...

The veteran documentarian returns with a six-part series on PBS that takes a slow and sanctimonious approach to the nation’s ...

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

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...

When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says ...

Was the founding father of the American Navy a pirate? How does one of the most notorious pirates in British history become an iconic hero of the American Revolution? Long before he went toe-to-toe ...