Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns joins TODAY to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States and looks back on the ...

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared ...

Faced with a dire job market, falling wages and endless competition, many young Chinese are recreating scenes from the early ...

“I must study war and diplomacy so that my children may study mathematics and science so that their children may study art and philosophy,” wrote John Adams as he explained his sense of duty and how ...

“Our founders did worry a lot about the future emergence of a demagogue,” Chernow said. “Their fear was what used to be ...

Fourth of July streaming spikes revive classic patriotic films as audiences seek history, nostalgia and Americana.

Some of the generals and politicians egging the soldiers on hoped that George Washington would take up his men's cause and in ...

For many years, my son and I observed the tradition of watching, on Independence Day, the movie “Independence Day.” “Independence Day” is not – if you’re a stickler for historical accuracy -- a movie ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...