The story of events leading up to the Civil War along the border of Kansas and Missouri. In the years leading up to the Civil War, a bloody conflict between slaveholders and abolitionists focused the ...

I probably wasn't paying attention that day in high-school history class when we covered post-Civil War Reconstruction. I may have been watching a work crew redo the gym roof, or passing stupid notes ...

Over the last two and a half years, a brutal civil war between the Sudan Armed Forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has killed tens of thousands. Over 14 million Sudanese, more than a quarter ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS says it will air a newly restored version of Ken Burns' "The Civil War" this fall, 25 years after the documentary's debut. The high-definition "Civil War" will air on five ...

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...

After chronicling the Civil War, jazz and baseball, filmmaker Ken Burns turns his attention to "The American Revolution." His new documentary series begins airing on PBS stations on Nov. 16.

Here’s a look at the actors who brought The American Revolution to life: Peter Coyote is the narrator. He speaks throughout ...

As a war expert on a CIA panel, UC San Diego political scientist Barbara Walter helped forecast civil wars in other countries. Along the way, she discovered some of those predictors apply to the ...

Ken Burns’ 'The American Revolution' focuses on New Jersey locations that defined the 1776 crisis and the army’s reversal at ...