Stories of Black and Indigenous patriots come into focus as US remembers the American Revolution

Charlie Price says he didn’t learn much about the American Revolution in school. He knew about George Washington, the Battle ...

AA250: American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, from founding to freedom

This week's Amazing America 250 takes us to the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.
Forbes

‘The American Revolution’ Tells The Story Of ‘One Of The Most Important Events In World History,’ Says Filmmaker Ken Burns

Siege of Yorktown. General Rochambeau and general Washington give last orders before an attack, October 1781. Auguste Couder (1789–1873). Artist Auguste Couder, 1836 (Photo by Pierce Archive ...

The American Revolution’s triumphant story of democracy and freedom overlooks loyalists who paid a steep price for allegiance to Britain

On the eve of the American Revolution, Matthias Aspden made a decision that would change the trajectory of his life. A ...
NPR

Ken Burns shares 3 thoughts on upcoming 'American Revolution' series

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...
Yahoo

“A Story We Think We Know”: Ken Burns on The American Revolution

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He’s taken on baseball, World War II, antisemitism in America, and so much more. But in a way, for Ken Burns, all were prelude to ...
New York Post

Ken Burns on why the American Revolution is ‘the most important event in history after the birth of Christ’

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...
Military.com

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution: 10 Big Takeaways From the Directors (Exclusive)

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. And in an exclusive interview, ...
The New Yorker

What Was the American Revolution For?

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...
Indiana Daily Student

COLUMN: 'The American Revolution': The story of beauty, blood and complexity

When you settle in for the six-part, 12-hour storytelling of the American Revolution, you sense immediately that it won’t be another glorified review of Founding Fathers and candle-lit taverns.
New Republic

What the American Revolution Owes the Rest of the World

Perhaps the least commented upon feature of the dystopian Trump banners adorning parts of Washington D.C. is the red, white, and blue number—“250”—emblazoned just beneath the president’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Native Soldier Allied With the British Killed a Young White Woman in 1777. Propaganda Transformed Her Into a Martyr of the American Revolution

This 1804 depiction of Jane McCrea's death cemented a dramatized version of her killing in the public imagination. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the century after Jane McCrea’s killing in ...