When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, he caved to war hysteria and paved the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans.

EXCLUSIVE: The producer behind a high-profile ITV documentary featuring Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers speaking about their experiences of the war in Gaza has put its film on YouTube. Zandland ...

New Jersey’s landscape has taken center stage in Ken Burns’ "The American Revolution." The ongoing PBS series portrays the Garden State as the defining battleground of the conflict’s lowest points and ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

A print shows British Brig. Gen. Charles O'Hara surrendering to American Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln in Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) History’s ...

Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the Iraq War by showing the first-person perspective of the men on the ground.

The Arctic could be the next front in a new cold war that rapidly alters the balance of geopolitical power, journalist Rosen argues in this captivating debut investigation. Two years of travel to the ...

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S. history. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic In mentioning Ken Burns‘ ...

Charles briefly praises a tiki bar in Grand Rapids, MI, and then talks to Shawnna Morris about her fascinating new book, The Cambridge Spy Ring: The Treachery of the Five Who Got Away. Among the ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...