"You wake the dead." Ken Burns offered that succinct description of his filmmaking at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival on Friday, where the veteran documentarian dug into the craft behind bringing ...

As students head back to school, “Ken Burns in the Classroom” content arrives on YouTube, starting with The American ...

The contributions of women during the American Revolution will be the focus of a public presentation next week in Pilger.

They're handed out a week before, but they could have big implications for the telecast.

As part of Brooklyn 250 events last weekend, Brooklynites highlighted historic heroics in Red Hook that may have saved the ...

Legendary filmmaker Ken Burns has joined the fight against a new Valley Link project slated to bring over 250 miles of power lines to parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.

Declaration of Independence to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Both will be at the Orton Center, 1250 E. Brockton Ave., on ...

Brooklyn spent the weekend looking back 250 years, commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn with solemn ceremonies, musical tributes and a large-scale reenactment ...

They, however, rarely explain who helped evacuate the 9,000-strong army after the Battle of Brooklyn in what proved to be possibly the first turning point in ...

Purdue’s Presidential Lecture Series returns Sept. 16 with Rick Atkinson, author of bestselling histories of the American ...

Ken Burns' documentary "The Civil War" played a pivotal role in New Mexico PBS CEO Phil Hoffman's choice of career; he started the job April 1.