Had enough of the consequences reverberating from the record government “shutdown”? Ready to do something about it? This is an ideal time to recall a slogan from the ’60s: “Power to the people.” We ...

Had enough of the consequences reverberating from the record government “shutdown”? Ready to do something about it? This is an ideal time to recall a slogan from the ’60s: “Power to the people.” We ...

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against the monarch leading them and in which any outcome seemed possible. By sheer ...

The American Revolution was one of the most radical acts in human history, casting aside centuries of monarchical despotism in favor of a representative system of rule—and the inherent rights of ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...

We need a second American Revolution, not with guns or violence, but by a provision in the Constitution the Founders thought necessary should we arrive at a moment like this. That would be state ...