Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

American Ancestors, a national center for family history, heritage, and culture, has created the “The Ancestry of Pope Leo ...

The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning with the rise of radio in the 1920s.

By day, he rebuilt postwar Korea through scientific research, and by night, he explored the meaning of life by translating Giorgio Vasari’s *Renaissance Artists’ Biographies*. Immersed in the painters ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (1913–2005), a 42-year-old African American woman, boarded a bus to return home. She was ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Kingston Colonial Days was in full swing at the Matthewis Persen House Museum on Saturday morning, with the event showcasing traditions and cultural practices of the 18th century. The ...

To mark our anniversary, PBS News spoke with people who have been longtime viewers to hear how the show, and later its work ...

Fifty years ago today, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought viewers like you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour evening ...

That manner of activation of a still image, now widely known as the Ken Burns Effect (thanks partly to Apple iMovie, where it ...

WEARING THE JERSEY: Mikie Sherrill is in the bring-along-your-best-surrogate, get-out-the-vote, stick-the-landing part of her ...

PBS Masterpiece has revealed the premiere date for its adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo tsarring Sam Claflin ( Daisy Jones and the Six) and Jeremy Irons ( The Borgias ).

PBS has announced the premiere date for The Forsytes, its upcoming costume drama based on John Galsworthy’s books and starring Susan Hampshire, one of the stars of the 1960s BBC adaptation of the same ...