"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history ...

From Paul Revere to present-day commentary, BPL’s new exhibit connects the past to modern movements ...

Sarah Lewis, a Harvard associate professor, spoke with Makeeba McCreary, president of the New Commonwealth Fund, about the ...

Renowned artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall and Rodchenko were among those to live through the fateful events of 1917, which ended centuries of Tsarist rule and shook Russian society to ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

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

Ken Burns, with co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, gives us an in-depth look at the war for independence that ...

Vaclav Havel, the unassuming playwright dissident who helped spearhead the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew Communism in Czechoslovakia, died on December 18. He became the country’s president ...

The Mexican Revolution helped to create Mexico's revolutionary mural movement, forging a powerful artistic legacy that still ...

Somewhat ironically Invoking the famous Mao (mis)quote – “let a thousand flowers bloom” – John Egers suggests in a recent opinion piece for Sign On San Diego that the reigns of public art be released ...

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Take a deep dive into the American Revolution. Learn more about the new documentary from Ken Burns, GBH's America 250 ...