Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the ...

Ahead of four local events this week, Ken Burns talks about his star-studded, 12-hour documentary series coming later this ...

During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed ...

This concept extends back to Benjamin Franklin’s founding of the first ... The Public Library" premieres 10 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 on PBS' "Independent Lens." The film will also be available ...

The authors are the directors of “The American Revolution,” which is scheduled to air on PBS beginning on Nov ... and Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Elbridge Gerry, Henry and Lucy Knox ...

He would go on to publish the National Review and host the PBS interview program ... will invoke the advice of one founding father, Benjamin Franklin, who wrote that "An investment in knowledge ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

Once upon a time in this country, you could not come up with a more innocuous title for a documentary than Free for All: The ...

He would go on to publish the National Review and host the PBS interview program ... Perhaps they will invoke the advice of one founding father, Benjamin Franklin, who wrote that "An investment in ...