One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera). The two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written generations ago amid a violent conflict.

1998); "U.S. History as Women’s History" (University of North Carolina Press, 1995); "Women and Power in American History" (2 vols., Prentice Hall, 1991), "The Social Survey Movement in ...

Ken Burns has been making ... only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time,” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most ...