Painting by John Trumbull ... As much as the Civil War is said to have pitted “brother against brother,” Burns says the inter-family conflicts of the Revolutionary War were even more contentious.

Secretary of War, Vice President, Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator South Carolina's most storied national politician, John C. Calhoun served as secretary of war, vice president, secretary of ...

The birth of our country may feel like a familiar story. But in making a documentary about it, we found plenty of revelations ...

The festival will be headlined by Ken Burns, the award-winning documentarian behind "The Civil War," "Baseball," "The ... "Remember Us") and screenwriter John Orloff ("Band of Brothers," "Masters ...

“I made a film many, many years ago, 35 years ago, on the history of the American Civil War. And after that ... Kicking off his stay in Virginia, Burns will stop at St. John’s Church in ...

The intellectual fire still burns as ... on Derry, War in an Irish Town. McCann’s fame in those turbulent years of the late 1960s went global, his name synonymous with the civil rights movement ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War. ‘THE OLD PLANTATION,’ watercolor attributed to John Rose, possibly ...

This John Ford Epic Western Is Still 1 of the Most Underrated Civil War Movies Ever Made Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger were once asked if Social Security is a 'government-sponsored Ponzi scheme'.

Margie Burns does not work for ... Use of the phrase did not end with Emancipation or the end of the U.S. Civil War. In fact, it was one of Frederick Douglass’ favorite phrases.

Filmmaker Ken Burns, the creative force behind the documentary "The Civil War" and many others ... Remember Us), screenwriter John Orloff (Band of Brothers, Masters of the Air), actors Matthew ...