Long before Facebook, Instagram, the internet, and other forms of social media, getting news and information out to the ...

Did political cartoons contribute to American nation-building? This exhibition at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shows how. Visitors inspect cartoons in "Cartoons as Political Speech" at 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 ...

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 ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premiered on PBS, it marked the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says these ...