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 ...

Director Lynn Novick to Follow Central Park’s Evolution from a Democratic Experiment in the 1850s to America’s Most Celebrated Public Space Three-Part Series to Weave History and Imagery to Explore ...

Netflix's documentaries are often popular with viewers, but it can be difficult to choose the best of the bunch. A few new releases are already populating the streamer's library, including one show ...

The American Revolution is a new documentary that will premiere for a two-hour episode, In Order to Be Free, on PBS at 8 pm on Sunday, November 16, with 5 subsequent episodes airing on consecutive ...

In the 1970s, I launched a campaign to end LGBTQ invisibility on television. Years later, that mission to show the public who we were expanded to another arena we’d long been written out of: American ...

The new Ken Burns documentary "The American Revolution" premieres Nov. 16 on PBS (check local listings). Celebrities including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Ethan Hawke voice historical figures in the ...

Cana Academy is a Virginia-based nonprofit with a mission to train teachers and equip them with educational resources. With America’s 250th anniversary next year, the organization has embarked on an ...

Some worry that history documentaries, which can take years to produce, could become a long-term casualty of the cuts. The NEH has supported some of the most prominent history documentaries in recent ...

On a road trip along historic Route 66, Muslim American couple Mona Haydar and Sebastian Robins met Muslim jazz musicians in Tulsa, historians in New Mexico, and date farmers in the Coachella Valley, ...