Sarah Botstein

Burns in his new documentary failed to ask the most important question: "Why?"

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

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

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

Ken Burns’s new documentary unpacks the Revolutionary War—and explains why history doesn’t repeat, even if human nature never changes.

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