Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled ...

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 ...

It would be hard to imagine today, but for a week in the fall of 1990, it seemed almost everyone in America was watching the same thing, at the same time. Nearly 40 million people tuned in for at ...

Ken Burns has produced a documentary about the Revolutionary War that sets a new standard for historical documentaries. This has been said of Burns before, at least since “The Civil War” premiered in ...

The American Revolution of 1775 is a seminal moment in human history. “I think it's the most important event since the birth of Christ,” documentarian Ken Burns said in a recent phone chat. For eight ...

Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...

The Battle of Long Island took place on Long Island, but (as most Long Islanders know) not exactly. On Aug. 27, 1776, just weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Aug. 2, the ...

"From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished." Cultural historian and filmmaker Ken Burns has delighted audiences with in-depth documentaries about American life.

6 After The Civil War, Steve Jobs told Burns he planned to call a new video-editing feature on Macintosh computers “the Ken Burns effect,” in tribute. Well, we had a lot of photographs, and that’s ...