American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The sales arm of American public broadcaster PBS will present a first look at the series at its screening on Wednesday, ...

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns will visit Lexington and Concord on April 17 to discuss his new documentary, "The American Revolution." ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground ...

He received some of the top awards given to historians, including the Parkman and Bancroft prizes, was a political analyst for CBS and NBC and consulted on several of Ken Burns’ PBS documentaries.

Leuchtenburg, Eminent Presidential Historian and Ken Burns Consultant ... Perils of Prosperity," a history of the U.S. from World War I to the peak of the Great Depression. Although politically ...