The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State ...

In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant ...

In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s ...

Elijah Wood was an enslaved soldier who fought for the Union in the Civil War and served in the first United States Colored ...

The 12-hour, six-part PBS docuseries, which premieres Sunday, Nov. 16, shows how our democracy was built, brick by brick.

The veteran documentarian returns with a six-part series on PBS that takes a slow and sanctimonious approach to the nation’s ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the ...

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

The American Revolution” is rich with detail and vibrant with intellectual filmmaking that seeks to serve as a definitive ...