The writer of Walden has been flattened into a caricature, but Henry David Thoreau was much more than a "prophetic hermit," the directors of the documentary say.

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns has been named the inaugural winner of The Commonwealth Prize, according to the Virginia ...

Burns discusses the nostalgia that defines many Americans’ understanding of the Revolutionary period and his guarded optimism for the next 250 years.

PHILADELPHIA − Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been trying to tell the story of America for 10 years. It's just a coincidence that it's premiering in a political moment in which America ...

PHILADELPHIA − Standing outside Independence Hall, the building in which America's forebears signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, even iconic documentarian Ken Burns can't help but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze titled "Washington Crossing the Delaware." Ken Burns is back with "The American Revolution," a ...

On the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival on March 12, a group of historians and scholars discussed the meaning ...

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Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHILADELPHIA − Standing outside Independence Hall, the building in which America's forebears signed the Declaration of ...