Ninety-six years ago today, the country singer who got his big break with Ernest Tubb before becoming a "Giant" solo success was born.

This wonderful HBO miniseries stars Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney as John and Abigail Adams, the power couple of the ...

For the first time in American history, U.S. soldiers would fight under a foreign command. In 93 minutes, they would help win ...

During the Great Depression, families across America were forced to get creative in the kitchen, stretching limited ...

The Martha Graham Dance Company will present GRAHAM100, a celebration of the company formed 100 years ago by visionary ...

She’s cool. Maybe not red-carpet, TikTok kind of cool. But historically speaking, as one of America’s foremost historians, ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

Discover how the Works Progress Administration (WPA) transformed American employment by creating 8.5 million jobs from 1935-1943, leaving a lasting legacy.

The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly ...

According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history. The collaboration between producer Ken Burns and writer ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...

The six-part documentary explores the United States’ founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, examining how these “turned the world upside-down.” It airs nightly through Nov. 21.