Ken Burns

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.

With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever.

Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

Confederates’ quest for bones connects to a bizarre history of the use, and misuse, of human remains.

The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.

On "The Vietnam War."

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

The PBS series by Burns focuses on soldiers' stories, with scant attention to the immense number of Vietnamese civilians who suffered and died.

The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.

Watching Ken Burns' latest epic with a historian who has written extensively about the war.

George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.

A new PBS documentary reveals the Thoreau often softened in high school textbooks.

Three experts discuss their behind-the-scenes experience as historical advisers to the new series.

For a fight at Thanksgiving, bring that one up.

A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.

I, a historian of the Vietnam War, have watched the Turning Point treatment. I have some notes.

In the late 1960s, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve never heard.

Why rock overtook every other genre to define our understanding of America at war.

The unraveling of this long-buried atrocity is forging a path toward reconciliation.