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Two hundred and fifty years ago, the attention of Europe was on the 13 English colonies on the East Coast of North America that were in open revolt.

On Dec. 6, 1775, the Continental Congress answered King George III's Proclamation of Rebellion. That proclamation, issued in ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

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Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phrase once associated with ...

Thomas Paine’s fiery rhetoric cemented him as “Father of the Revolution." What's less certain is whether the tale that he ...

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Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as ...

In 1770 the port city Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony had about 15,000 people, in comparison, Indianola has about 15,000 ...