The Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee choose opposing sides at the Battle of Oriskany. The Haudenosaunee was a centuries-old union of the Six Nations: Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Tuscarora, Oneida and ...
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Merry Christmas: Illinois has become the latest state in the Union to add medically assisted suicide to its panoply of modern horrors. Gov.
The magazine’s most-read articles of the year included a deep dive on the Scopes “monkey trial,” an interview with award-winning documentarians and a profile of quintuplets who found fame during the ...
Americans may find themselves paying more for a bourbon neat these days. U.S. whiskey distillers throughout the liquor industry are facing financial hardship lately, and economic experts are pointing ...
Cannon in silhouette from the Yorktown Battlefield at Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Va. (PBS) For the first time ever, PBS made its way into Nielsen’s top 10 streaming list, thanks to ...
The six-episode, 12-hour extravaganza, The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, closes with a famous passage written by the esteemed Philadelphia physician, Dr.
The Adams Presidential Center in Quincy is hosting a free event about the PBS documentary "The American Revolution." Award-winning historians Gordon Wood and Friederike Baer, who were featured in the ...
Have you seen Ken Burns’s series “The American Revolution” on PBS? Even if you haven’t, you might have seen the commentary that accompanied it: a scorching string of articles accusing Burns of ...
In a recent interview, Ken Burns said that the American Revolution was the most important human event since the birth of Christ. While historians (and theologians) may debate this claim, what cannot ...
The economic realities of the war start to settle in for both the Americans and the British. Securing resources for the American Revolution was top of mind for both sides. In the United States, ...
When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely to fail — to find someone who would fool the people into giving him complete ...
A single loose wire is said to be the cause of the marine accident that led to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the death of six highway employees on March 26, 2024, the National ...