Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

It’s not merely that our current era doesn’t compare to the Civil War; it’s that it doesn’t compare to much else, either. “This is the most fraught time, I think, in the history of our ...

and it has gained new currency thanks to the forthcoming release of Alex Garland’s aptly titled Civil War. The best of such films interrogate the nuances of the war and how it caught up with ...

(Florentine Films and WETA Washington ... which Burns sees as not just a war for independence, but a civil war that became a world war. At the height of the rebellion, Britain was a vast ...

It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" Sonja Anderson During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into ...