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

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

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 ...

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

Capt. Walter Huchthausen strove tirelessly to stop the building from collapsing and ensured it would be preserved as it is today.

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.

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...