One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera). The two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.

NEW YORK -- William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

Ken Burns has been making ... only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time,” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most ...

1998); "U.S. History as Women’s History" (University of North Carolina Press, 1995); "Women and Power in American History" (2 vols., Prentice Hall, 1991), "The Social Survey Movement in ...

Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the ...