Congress is moving toward revoking a billion dollars in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the ...

Large audiences flock to their content, suggesting a hunger for knowledge that schools need to be able to satisfy ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the ...

Culture Club What Ken Burns Won’t Say About the American Revolution On the road with America’s foremost history documentarian in a fractured country.

For many Americans, the Revolutionary War was the country’s star-spangled origin story, a righteous battle between home-grown patriots and invading British forces, which ended in the triumphant ...

While Burns has danced around the Revolution in various projects over the years, for the 250th anniversary of the conflict he and his collaborators decided to take on the entire story in a six ...

Gavin Jackson talks with Ken Burns about his next documentary on the American Revolution.

Burns — whose upcoming film "The American Revolution" is expected to air on PBS on Nov. 16 — also reflected on some of the "complicated stories" in America's short history.

As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John Dickerson that the American Revolution was a "civil war" that became a "big world ...

Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.