Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...

That's a phrase that has been bandied about lately with the controversy over displaying the Confederate battle flag. Now viewers can experience again Ken Burns' seminal documentary that covered the ...

The fight for independence was one part revolution, one part civil war, with brutalities on both sides. That was one takeaway. George Washington was not all that hot of a military strategist, but he ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...