The 93-year-old Young had a role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle that was different than everybody else’s, but no ...

PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger is in a race against time. Usually, public TV and radio stations across the country ...

From Gen. Nathanael Greene, to Black soldiers to everyday people, RI play key roles in the founding of America, says noted ...

With the six-part, 12-hour documentary series set to premiere Nov. 16, Burns faced questions about whether the spark for the ...

Well-known documentarian Ken Burns made a stop in Rhode Island Thursday to preview an upcoming documentary series of his that ...

Documentarian Ken Burns stood in the governor’s reception room and addressed a man who was present but could not hear him.

"From Rails to Trails," premiering Oct. 15 on PBS, chronicles how tens of thousands of abandoned tracks were converted to trails over 60 years.

In our news wrap Sunday, Republicans and Democrats are at a stalemate on the 12th day of a government shutdown, Russia ...

George Washington’s Mount Vernon, PBS and WETA are hosting a free outdoor screening of highlights from the documentary series ...

Featuring 21 pieces by leading scholars, essayists, and reporters on the history and lessons of America’s founding era ...

The city and its people spearhead ideas of democracy in the six-part, twelve-hour-long "The American Revolution," featuring ...

Ken Burns’s obsession with this country can be felt in all 234 hours of his roughly 40 films—including his latest mega-doc, ...