Supporters press for a DC memorial to Thomas Paine, whose writings helped fuel the Revolutionary War

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of ...

The Century-Long Tug of War for Venezuela’s Oil

The country’s oil industry has undergone major shifts and two waves of nationalization since its first well started pumping ...
ClickOrlando

A timeline of how the protests in Iran unfolded and grew

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over ...
The White House

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans

Today, our Nation remembers one of the greatest American tales of might and one of the grandest displays of American resolve ...
Indiana Daily Student

COLUMN: 'The American Revolution': The story of beauty, blood and complexity

When you settle in for the six-part, 12-hour storytelling of the American Revolution, you sense immediately that it won’t be another glorified review of Founding Fathers and candle-lit taverns.
The American Conservative

Ken Burns’s Disappointing Revolution

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... A decade in the making, Ken Burns’s much-ballyhooed The American Revolution gives the viewer a fair idea of what to expect in its opening ...
Washington Examiner

Ken Burns revolts against the American Revolution

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made America into the most liberal, democratic and modern nation in the world.” ...
Reason

What We Get Wrong About the American Revolution

Today's guest is Ken Burns, the filmmaker who has massively reshaped national conversations about everything from the Civil War to baseball to jazz to immigration to national parks with epic ...
The Gazette

9 things you probably didn’t know about the American Revolution

What is most striking about Ken Burns’ extraordinary new PBS documentary on the American Revolution is how alike we are right now to those folks in 1776. Take away the tricorn hats and ruffled shirts ...
WGBH

The Deep Dive: The American Revolution

This week we’re taking a deep dive into the American Revolution. As the birthplace of the Revolution, Massachusetts is at the center of a national movement to acknowledge this historic moment. Check ...
Christian Science Monitor

‘The American Revolution’: Ken Burns trains lens on flame ‘not to be extinguished’

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Q&A: In ‘The American Revolution,’ Ken Burns’ filmmakers go back to the beginning

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premiered on PBS, it marked the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says these ...