Tennessee Williams' early radio play, “The Strangers,” is featured in The Strand this week. Written in the late 1930s while Williams was a student at the University of Iowa, the play ...

Respected documentarian Ken Burns' latest project is a PBS docuseries that explores the American Revolution in extreme detail ...

"The American Revolution" the latest look at history by Ken Burns. As a young filmmaker, Burns brought his cameras to Old Sturbridge Village. American Antiquarian Society in Worcester: "You don't have ...

Hemingway follows the Army as they advance through Europe. Afterwards, he tries to start a life with Mary Welsh, but is beset with tragedies. He publishes The Old Man and the Sea to acclaim but is ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with ...

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made America into the most liberal, democratic and modern nation in the world.” ...

The Iroquois confederation wasn’t even a democracy. Leaders were selected by women elders, whose status was hereditary. Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The ...

Ken Burns' latest documentary, "The American Revolution," was financially supported by the Better Angels Society. The Better Angels Society is a nonprofit that has raised over $100 million for Burns ...

Ken Burns revolutionized the way historical documentaries were made before the internet was even a common term, so it’s hardly a shock he’d eventually tackle America’s fight for independence in his ...