According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

Anti-Catholicism was not a central force driving the colonists to revolt, but it played a role, shaping their political ...

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The MAGA Republican Congress is on its knees, factually and rhetorically, in total thrall to King Donald in relinquishing to ...

A tax on tea once sparked rebellion. This time, it’s just causing headaches. Importers of the prized leaves have watched ...

Ben Franklin goes head-to-head against Parliament over the Stamp Act in this amazing testimony from 1766, captured in real time. This explains exactly why the Stamp Act was so outrageous to the ...

"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history of the war of independence from Britain and the beginnings of the American ...

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against the monarch leading them and in which any outcome seemed possible. By sheer ...

Chances are fair that you’ve heard about this new American Revolution documentary series that has announced itself like Paul Revere’s midnight ride. You might have even ingested a think piece or two ...

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 ...

Testing the human animal’s tolerance for plaintive fiddles, wheezy bagpipes, Peter Coyote and the whispery recitations of diary entries, “The American Revolution” is the most Ken Burns-y of Ken Burns ...