This month marks 250 years since the Battle of Great Cane Brake, the only Revolutionary War battle fought in Greenville ...

Three experts discuss their behind-the-scenes experience as historical advisers to the new series.

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

Ken Burns, in his documentary on the American Revolution, said one thing about Joseph Warren: he was killed at Bunker Hill. That’s an understatement. Dr. Joseph Warren, born on June 11, 1741, in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Citadel history professor David Preston provided an overview of his lecture about the complexity of what led to the larger outbreak of the American ...

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 ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

A sword belonging to a solider who fought in the final battle of the Revolutionary War will be put on display next month at the Museum of the American Revolution in Old City. The weapon, donated to ...

In Pennsylvania, the foundations of a treasure linked to a robbery committed by the Doan Gang during the Revolutionary War.

This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...

Undergrads or grad students studying American History should apply ASAP for a January 31, 2026 deadline.