The story of events leading up to the Civil War along the border of Kansas and Missouri. In the years leading up to the Civil War, a bloody conflict between slaveholders and abolitionists focused the ...

I probably wasn't paying attention that day in high-school history class when we covered post-Civil War Reconstruction. I may have been watching a work crew redo the gym roof, or passing stupid notes ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS says it will air a newly restored version of Ken Burns' "The Civil War" this fall, 25 years after the documentary's debut. The high-definition "Civil War" will air on five ...

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...

PBS this coming TV season will boast an unvarnished look at entertainment entrepreneur Walt Disney, a revival of Ken Burns epic documentary “The Civil War” and something that has been a rarity on the ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...