The Big Ideas: What Is History? Re-enacting battles from Vietnam demonstrates how war can be mythologized. By An-My Lê An-My Lê is a photographer whose work explores the effects of war on ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

Biden removed the names of Confederate generals from nine Army installations. Trump has restored those Confederate names, but ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Documentary historian Ken Burns contended that major events and legislative efforts throughout U.S. history have always experienced a level a pushback.

In 1966, the Beatles were bigger than ever, skirts were getting shorter, and the youth of America was shaking off the last ...

War-torn South Sudan is a country the State Department advises against travel to due to “crime, kidnapping, and armed ...

A federal judge in Washington is briefly blocking the deportation of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan the day after ...

The Vietnam War remains a compelling historical reminder for Christians to pursue discernment and clarity when applying biblical teachings to contemporary moral and social issues.

That is no mean feat for a man whose work looked head-on at the Civil War, Vietnam and the Holocaust. Wherever we went, Burns was met with adoration. Two days before his speech at Colonial ...

War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.