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The Civil War explores the most important conflict in our nation’s history.
As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...
The documentarian will hold a live talk at Seattle's McCaw Hall on July 14, during which a sneak preview of the documentary ...
Netflix's brand-new Vietnam War docuseries is the perfect companion watch even for those who watched Ken Burns' 2017 documentary.
Just before Burns' The American Revolution documentary series debuts in November, the celebrated historical filmmaker will release a companion book by the same name.
The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...
One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual historical record—photographs, diaries, speeches—to "let the war tell its own story ...
Episode 2 | A Very Bloody Affair (1862) The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves.
Browse key Civil War facts and dates and learn about the people, places and events surrounding the Civil War.
Civil Rights The war economy offered possibilities to some minorities that had previously been unimaginable, but Japanese Americans faced discrimination and relocation.