The Huntington acquires the Civil War-era Winslow Homer masterwork, "The Sutler's Tent"; Robert Therrien at the Broad; and ...

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

American history, when told well, resists the tidy progressions we like to imagine for it. Two recent works -- Ken Burns and ...

The veteran documentarian returns with a six-part series on PBS that takes a slow and sanctimonious approach to the nation’s ...

MAGA racists have a footing inside the big tent of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. Can conservative institutions figure out what to do?

Pulitzer-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward talks with Dalton Delan about his new book and Ken Burns’ PBS series “The ...

First, very few of the students I met, of any age, could pass the new citizenship test. Second, very few of the schools I ...

That’s all good food for thought as you watch “The American Revolution,” the six-part, 12-hour Ken Burns behemoth. But here’s ...

We talk with Tim McGrath, author of "Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the ...

History’s gears are lubricated by gore. Witness America’s Revolutionary War, whose continuing reverberations have done more ...