Washington, DC – May 6, 2026 -- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the six-part, 12-hour documentary series directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, that premiered on PBS in November 2025, will ...

Ken Burns talks to Jacobin about his new documentary, The American Revolution; the ongoing project of 1776; and why the Declaration of Independence was far more than a revolt of slaveholders and the ...

Fresh historical lens: Burns’ documentary expands Revolutionary history to include perspectives often absent from mainstream narratives. Complex war motives: It examines how liberty ideals coexisted ...

I don’t like the fact that we even have this bill,” said state Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven. “This is about erasing.” ...

Here are 12 promising performing arts shows scheduled for May 2026, including several that salute America's 250th anniversary.

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of... Filmmaker Ken Burns: Public broadcasting is a ...

A decades-old law allows the president to wage war without congressional approval for 60 days, then limits his options for continuing. President Trump may seek to get around it. By Robert Jimison ...

Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin said that President Trump has failed to make his case to the American public about the war against Iran, while also praising the president for trying to derail that ...

The president said the truce in Lebanon would last three more weeks. Halting the war between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon has been considered critical to advancing any peace ...

Former Central Intelligence Agency director William J. Burns laid out a roadmap for ending the Iran war in a New York Times op-ed, offering President Donald Trump three hard-learned lessons from the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It landed like news of yet another skirmish in America’s long-running ...

Bernthal doesn't step into this moment lightly, as the lottery-winning benefactor of some random confluence of events. Some ...