This week, the show travels back to the American Revolution to explore the science of the weapons used by all sides.

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 ...

Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

Because of the rich historical preservation of this community, do-director David Schmidt said, and the fact that “so much of the Revolution happened within a day’s march of Williamsburg, we filmed ...

As we learned from making films about the Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War, war has a capacity to bring out the very worst in humanity — but also our best. The American Revolution ...

David Schmidt is a producer and co-director with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein of “The American Revolution,” which is scheduled to air on PBS in November. A special preview is planned in Colonial ...

President Trump is not just unraveling a system of government, he's denying the American Creed, the truths we have considered self-evident since 1776.

Even during the American Revolutionary War, Bunce Island was caught in conflict ... ancestors may have passed through the island. Documentaries like Family Across the Sea and The Language ...

The Revolutionary War Exhibition is a collaborative project of the American Battlefield Trust and the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

The Trump administration this week terminated a $1.3 million grant to the Massachusetts affiliate of the National Endowment ...

Several years ago, David Schmidt returned to his hometown to film sequences for Ken Burns’ documentary “The ... as a major participant in the Revolutionary War, but she wrote letters and ...

The year 2025 marks the 250th birthday for both branches of the U.S. military and Philadelphia -- the birthplace of each -- ...