As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

Documentary historian Ken Burns contended that major events and legislative efforts throughout U.S. history have always experienced a level a pushback.

But as with the Civil War, Burns seeks themes beyond battlefield maps. “It’s less the individual stories of a particular state,” he said, ...

The documentarian will hold a live talk at Seattle's McCaw Hall on July 14, during which a sneak preview of the documentary ...

For four decades he has captured the stories of people and places from significant events such as The Holocaust and the Civil War. Burns was in Lexington on Thursday, April 17, to speak about his ...

And while we accept the violence of our Civil War, this is an important city for that story, which I have told. And most of the 20th century wars that we have been in, we've accepted the violence ...

Burns: When you say the American Revolution, there’s a distance, right? Because it’s not a photograph. The people don’t seem real, the way a Civil War body or a president seems like a real ...