About 6 million Black people left the South in the Great Migration between 1910 and 1970. A four-part documentary from Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the Great Migration of the 20th century while also ...
Director Lynn Novick to Follow Central Park’s Evolution from a Democratic Experiment in the 1850s to America’s Most Celebrated Public Space Three-Part Series to Weave History and Imagery to Explore ...
In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...
What do you think you know about the American Revolution? Nearly 250 years later, as we continue to debate what the Founders intended, we may find at times that we’ve been led astray by legend, ...
As a co-director of “The American Revolution,” the six-part PBS documentary that premieres on Sunday, David Schmidt seems in every sense thoroughly modern. And yet, he said in an interview, “I like to ...
NEW YORK — On a chilly midweek afternoon, hundreds of New York City high school students gathered in the pews of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. The lesson was “Who tells your story?” The teachers, ...
For more than 100 years, a pair of statues represented Arkansas in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Until last year, Uriah Milton Rose (1834-1913), a founder of the ...
On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, Frontline, the PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and The Associated Press will present the U.S. broadcast and ...
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters. In response to a blizzard of executive orders from President Donald Trump, the Public Broadcasting Service recently ...