The American Revolution

Ken Burns’s newest docuseries may have its shortcomings, but others looking to tell the story of the Founding could learn from his attention to detail.

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

Ken Burns has set himself the impossible task of retelling a national origin story that all Americans will embrace as their own.

What Ken Burns gets wrong about the war that made America.

The Founders didn’t model us on the Six Nations, and George Washington didn’t tomahawk a Frenchman.

Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein discuss their six-part, 10-year labor of love, which finally makes it to PBS on November 16.

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.