"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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Berthe Morisot's 1880 oil-on-canvas painting "Winter" is among the highlights of “The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse,” which continues through Nov. 3 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Chad ...

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 ...