The film, featuring a UVA professor, opens a three-day event that will bring people together to examine how America’s ...

The new 12-hour documentary about the United States’ origin story will begin broadcasting Nov. 16 on WHYY and other PBS stations.

The city and its people spearhead ideas of democracy in the six-part, twelve-hour-long "The American Revolution," featuring ...

Ken Burns’s obsession with this country can be felt in all 234 hours of his roughly 40 films—including his latest mega-doc, ...

In one of the most historic sporting moments in history, the late Muhammad Ali garnered the world’s attention in his final boxing victory. Suffering just three losses up to that point in his ...

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in New Jersey built 266 years ago will be featured in Ken Burns’ upcoming PBS documentary series “The American Revolution.” The historic building, located in ...

A pivotal piece of history, Muhammad Ali’s unsigned Vietnam-era military draft card, which profoundly altered the boxing legend’s life and amplified the anti-war movement, is now set to go up for sale ...

Muhammad Ali’s refusal to sign his Vietnam-era military draft card upended the boxing champ’s life and added a powerful voice to the anti-war movement. Now that piece of history is coming up for sale.

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. Americans, and Philadelphians in particular, might think they ...

There has never been anybody in the history of boxing quite like Muhammad Ali. To earn nicknames like “The Greatest” and “The People’s Champion”, you have to be something special, and Ali was.