On Dec. 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territory was formally transferred from France to ...

Her film “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” earned an Oscar nomination in 1988 and was inducted into the National Film Registry for ...

Produced by Chief Chuck Nduka-Eze, the Isama Ajie of Asaba, and directed by historian and documentarist Nze Ed Emeka Keazor, ...

United States President Barack Obama announced an end to the Iraq War. This effectively brought an end to nine years of American troops being deployed in West Asia. Gone with the Wind, one of the ...

In the new Ken Burns documentary, an old myth—held by the left and right—is repeated: that chaos led to the need for the ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

The U.S. Civil War ended 160 years ago, but as demonstrated by the new documentary feature Natchez, its reverberations are ...

The Emmy winner reflects on trips to the city and its many layers of history, from waterfront landmarks to a groundbreaking ...

A lie fueled Alabama football to beat Washington in the 1926 Rose Bowl for the Crimson Tide's first national championship: ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

One admirer wrote on IMDb: "The real show stopper was Maya Hawke as Jo. She was everything that is Jo for me. It was like she had leaped from the page. I loved her on Stranger Things and have been a ...