Ken Burns’ upcoming six-part, 12-hour documentary “The American Revolution” doesn’t just tell the story of icons like George ...

After a decade of filming for The American Revolution, Ken Burns begins with Ben Franklin and positions Philadelphia at the heart of this story.

In Burns’ portrayal of the Revolution, LGBTQ people are not only erased but defamed, reduced to a caricatured trope instead ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...