On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History partnered with WETA television and the National Endowment for the Humanities to present “The Roosevelts: A ...

Colonial National Historical Park is hosting a one-of-a-kind event called “We The People: A Yorktown Battlefield Event.” The ...

Having spent nearly 50 years telling America’s stories, warts and all, Ken Burns knows better than to traffic in the reassurance business. I was reminded of that on Monday when I spoke with him a ...

Stream now with KPBS Passport / Watch Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. For 200 years, the United States Congress ...

Preview Ken Burns’ The American Revolution, debuting Nov 2025, with exclusive behind-the-scenes insi Enjoy a preview of Ken Burns’ upcoming six-part, 12-hour series The American Revolution. Go behind ...

Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress’s elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ...

Prolific documentarian Ken Burns is set to receive the Critics Choice Impact Award at the 10th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, the organization announced Monday. Burns will be recognized at ...

THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY, a new documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns, chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential ...