After an outbreak of disease, an island off the coast of South Carolina became one of the only ‘free-roam’ monkey colonies in ...

From there, we leapt over centuries of empire, slavery and revolution in America to arrive triumphantly at the First and ...

President McKinley had hoped to maintain peace with Spain. The U.S. would soon be fighting from the Caribbean to the Pacific.

I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown ...

As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series ...

The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” ...

From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...

The place is Boston Harbor, and the year is 1774, just after the Boston Tea Party. Your job as colonial sailors forced into ...

Burns' anticipated six-part docuseries "The American Revolution" premieres at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16 nationwide on PBS, ...

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

Famous for being the summer hotspot for the rich and famous, the Hamptons are popular for good reason: Gorgeous beaches, ...

More than nine years in the making, the six-part,12-hour documentary series tells the tale of the country’s founding struggle ...