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The only ticket that has ever surfaced to the Gettysburg Address sold on Thursday for $187,500. The ticket came from a scrapbook owned by Elizabeth P. Dole, partner of William Dole, the commissioner ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns joins Olivia Walton April 17 for the next installment of Building Bridges at Heartland Whole Health Institute on the Crystal Bridges Campus in Bentonville. Tickets are ...

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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said the American Revolution has been “sanitized,” calling the war “dark and bloody.” “I think we have sanitized the war. And I — I think it’s out of an understandable ...

Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life. In an interview with “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, the filmmaker challenged how the nation ...

Award-winning filmmaker and historian Ken Burns of Walpole played the role of cleanup hitter Friday, making the final argument in New Hampshire’s bid to convince the Democratic National Committee (DNC ...

Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life. In an interview with “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, the filmmaker challenged how the nation ...

Documentarian Ken Burns told NBC's "Meet the Press" that on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he believes Americans are worried about the country lasting another ten years. KEN ...

BRINGING BEFORE THE DNC RULES AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE. KEN BURNS, THE WORLD RENOWNED DOCUMENTARIAN WHO LIVES IN WALPOLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, IS PROVIDING THE CLOSING ARGUMENT FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE’S FIRST IN THE ...

As part of the Jan. 13 program, Ken Burns encouraged audience members to reflect on the uncertainty the country's founders faced in trying to create and defend the American experiment. The U.S. War ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...