While the Presidency is today associated with wealth and fame, many early U.S. Presidents came from humble backgrounds and ...

The new PBS documentary "The American Revolution" features A-list actors voicing historical figures across six episodes.

A documentary about renowned playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez has won the seventh annual $200,000 Library of Congress ...

In tribute to the late poet Tony Harrison, BBC Radio 4 is rebroadcasting his landmark poem v. alongside Blake Morrison’s 2013 ...

Prussia was undoubtedly one of the most important actors in Europe’s Early- and Late Modern periods. It has a fascinating ...

As PBS releases its new documentary Kissinger, interest has renewed in Henry Kissinger’s children, Elizabeth and David, who have led private and accomplished lives away from their father’s towering ...

Already one of the best players baseball has ever seen, the two-way superstar continues to put on a show in the postseason.

They were called "The Melody Maids" and they travelled the world during wartime to bring harmony, and heart, to our fighting ...

A PBS documentary profiles the storied diplomat who was obsessed, for better and worse, with keeping his adopted country safe ...

The final documentary of American Experience before the series pauses new production explores the life and career of the ...

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

After eight long years of hard work on her directorial debut, everything is coming up Rachel Michiko Whitney. The journey of ...