Ken Burns on America's origin story: "The most important event since the birth of Christ"

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...
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How a young Jefferson’s plea to the King helped ignite America’s fight for independence

Tourists can be seen in the reflection of a panel explaining the painting, “Declaration of Independence,” by John Trumbull ... devastating but little-understood battles of the Revolutionary War, in a ...