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Rifles brought from Europe were of little use in the American wilderness. So hunters, frontiersmen, and revolutionaries began ...

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and ...

Longtime Russia strategist Glen Howard argues Kyiv’s disruption of the North Korean arms route decisively proves the ...

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

By Bruce Mowday The Sept. 11, 1777, Battle of Brandywine is a historic event of enormous importance to the United States that ...

The acclaimed filmmaker’s PBS documentary is a captivating look at the fear, risk and courage that forged a country ...

Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour "The American Revolution," premiering Nov. 16-21 on PBS.

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

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution reveals the human side of America’s founding in a story both messy and magnificent.

Nearly one-hundred years ago, New York state asked local towns and historians to assist with the celebration of the War of the Revolution’s sesquicentennial by identifying historic sites in their ...