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As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...
The American Revolution was one of the most significant events in world history because it created a "new thing called a ...
Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...
The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for ...
Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...
The American Revolution coincided with the climax of the Age of Enlightenment. It was itself, in some degree, the product of this age. There were many in Europe, as there were in America, who saw in ...
When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops ...
Forgive me, I’m on a movie kick. I wrote about the 50th anniversary of Jaws last week. Besides, for this holiday column, I ...