The PBS docuseries, co-directed by Sarah Botstein, argues America’s birth was less a unified fight for independence than a ...

Austin Hoyt, a longtime television producer and Buffalo native, died on July 17, 2026. He was 89 years old. Hoyt was the twin ...

On Friday, Trump ordered warning signs installed outside of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History due in part ...

Amid mounting tensions between white settlers and the Shoshone, Union soldiers killed an estimated 250 to 500 Shoshone. Today ...

Who is Spencer Williams Jr.? He's probably best known for his final acting role as Andrew "Hogg" Brown, or simply Andy, in ...

BROOKLYN, New York – Born and raised in Kennebunk, Maine, film editor David Bartner can remember the first Martin Scorsese film he ever watched. “Taxi Driver.” Bartner was in high school at the time – ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — This Ann Arbor native has picked up another Emmy nomination Wednesday, July 8. Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns earned his 19th nomination in the Outstanding Documentary or ...

Joe Gaetjens, who scored the game-winning goal in the United States' 1-0 win vs. England in the 1950 World Cup, is among the historic achievements of Black soccer players chronicled in Akbar Majeed's ...

Showing the “true history” of Native Americans is top of mind for this Indigenous Temecula filmmaker as the United States is celebrating 250 years as a nation. American Indian history is much older — ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, leaders of the Guilford Native American Association (GNAA) say they hope more people will recognize the history and contributions ...

McKaylin Peters, a 24-year-old Native American graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, still recalls when she first heard the words “merciless Indian savages.” Sitting in social studies class at ...