‘The American Revolution’ Review: Ken Burns Tackles the War for Independence in Patriotic, Pragmatic and Familiar Form

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

Why the Vietnam War dragged on for decades

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

Ken Burns on America's origin story: "The most important event since the birth of Christ"

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

American ‘Revolution’ and Canadian independence

As a promising high school history student, I wrote an incisive B+ essay making the iron-clad case that the American Revolution was anything but, in terms of the kind of fundamental change a ...
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Cost of war: U.S. death tolls in major conflicts since the American Revolution

Each Memorial Day, Americans honor the service members who gave their lives for their country. From the nation's founding to its modern military operations overseas, hundreds of thousands of U.S.