One act of brutality sparked a national reckoning and helped bend the arc of American history toward justice. As part of ...

It's been 250 years since the start of the American Revolution, and the extent to which our nation has matured into a continent-spanning world power has, no doubt, exceeded the founding fathers' ...

You don’t have to be a professional historian to realize this documentary's title refers to the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, i.e., the one that abolished slavery. However, Ava DuVernay ...

Netflix adds Apollo 11, the gripping 1969 moon-landing documentary, bringing restored footage of NASA’s most daring mission ...

Quakertown, USA chronicles the prosperous Black community that Denton city leaders razed in the early 1920s to build a city ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Lincoln Land Community College is hosting four free, public events in February in recognition of African American History ...