In his new documentary series “The American Revolution,” the prolific filmmaker depicts a nation created by violence. Still, ...

Sudan's conflict continues to reshape the nation of 50 million amid widespread displacement and a fight for resources.

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the east portico of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, to offer his ...

For the past decade, filmmaker Ken Burns and his team have been delving deep into history to put together this six-part ...

Ken Burns' latest opus is solid storytelling. It also highlights the costliness of our ignorance about our history.

For the second time this year, Dan Edwin Wilson, a former January 6 defendant and member of the far-right group the Oath ...

Meanwhile, at the ongoing Art Mumbai fair at Mahalaxmi Racecourse, another art ist is showing the fraught past of Sri Lanka ...

My walk through Virginia's historic Pocahontas Island, America's oldest free Black community, gave me new insights into ...

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

Dick Cheney, celebrated as a master Republican strategist but defined by the darkest chapters of America's "War on Terror," ...