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Charleston Museum opens new exhibit exploring city’s role in the American Revolution

The Charleston Museum is taking visitors back to one of the most pivotal moments in American history with the opening of its newest exhibition, Ringleaders of R ...
The New Yorker

What Was the American Revolution For?

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...
Salon

Watching “The American Revolution” in our fourth crisis

When discussing his work and its long conversation with the American story, Ken Burns often shares a version of a quote long attributed to Mark Twain. “History doesn’t repeat itself,” the maxim ...
The New York Times

What ‘The American Revolution’ Says About Our Cultural Battles

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...
Military.com

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution: 10 Big Takeaways From the Directors (Exclusive)

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...