On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being ...

The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS Ken Burns ...

Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns will soon release his new series, a six-part, 12-hour show on the American Revolution. And he will kick things off in Massachusetts on April 16 with ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

Because of the rich historical preservation of this community, do-director David Schmidt said, and the fact that “so much of ...

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns says he “won’t work on a more important film” than his newest documentary, "The American ...

Besides being heard regularly on Ken Burns’ films, Schwab has appeared on PBS as a soloist with the American Pops Orchestra, ...

Ken Burns is ... said Ken Burns of the project. “The story of the birth of this country is at once devastating and inspiring." He added, "It was a bloody civil war that divided families and ...