Rumor has it that the Federal Reserve was able to resist the president‘s demands to enable funding of the Korean War. However ...

The American Miracle takes viewers from the unlikely victories of the Revolutionary War to the divine protection of America’s early leaders. The film affirms that our freedoms were not random, but ...

The celebrations are a preview of what Americans are likely to see next year as the nation highlights the July 4, 1776, signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

In every battle fought since the United States’ founding, U.S. Army troops have relied on their issue longarms, from muskets ...

Some 4,000 Royal Marines marched into Washington, which American ... at the Battle of New Orleans was a major morale booster. "The war had become a glorious re-declaration of independence ...

At Castle Itter, German soldiers, American troops, and French prisoners joined forces to defend against an SS assault. Discover the incredible true story of this unlikely alliance, where politics and ...

In November 1942, a scenario played out in Wakefield that resembled the script of a Hollywood movie. The main characters were Phyllis Priest, a beautiful hometown girl, and Cooper, a dashing Navy ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

Discover how these legendary confrontations shaped the world—and why the fight for control at sea has always been a turning point in human history.

or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...