George Washington has long been highly regarded as the father of his country. It's hard to imagine that the 13 original colonies that became the United States would have won their independence from ...

Jacob Francis, a free Black man from Amwell Township, fought in the Revolutionary War and overcame racism to become a ...

To celebrate America’s 250th birthday we’re joined by Dr. Shirley Green to discuss Black soldiers of the American Revolution. The Journal is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

A lecture at the Battleship North Carolina highlighted the overlooked contributions of Black soldiers from the state during the Revolutionary War. An estimated 468 Black men from North Carolina served ...

DAR had long been known as a bastion of racism and elitism, and Batchelor’s parents, who were civil-rights activists, had ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown George Washington has long been highly regarded as the father of his country. It's ...

George Washington was from Virginia, born February 22, 1732, noted last Sunday. Only once during Washington’s life, did he leave the North American continent, and that was in 1751, when he was 19, ...

The series is narrated by Peter Coyote and features the voices of Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and others The American Revolution does a deep dive into the lives of Black Americans during the war and how ...