The citys relevance to the War Between the States is not defined by a single battle, yet its wartime story is supremely compelling, even gaining frequent mention in Ken Burns famed and award-winning PBS-TV documentary, The Civil War. It is another...

Ken Burns’ PBS production, Civil War, discusses the impact of slavery on the north as well as the south. Alex Haley’s Roots follows the story of his ancestor Kunta Kinte as he was sold into slavery and his and his family’s struggle for freedom. The...

They have also recently published an excellent biography of the author called Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler. The book includes a forward by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, who calls it "hugely important." Coincidentally,...

He’s hoping, with your support, it will become a multi-part program “that will explain the major ideas, events and human quirks that have shaped where we are right now politically.” So, expect something that combines the informative footage and voice...

Mike Piazza, Mookie Wilson and Dwight Gooden. (Which isn’t bad as jumbles go.) I set the record straight and we wound up talking about how it was all too easy to inflate athletes’ successes or failures on the field into judgments of them as people. This...

But several episodes offer something else, alternate bits of history. So, after politely listening to one of the Sons of Confederate Veterans insist that “slavery is a dead issue,” or maybe part of an effort to “squash Confederate history,” Tilghman...

"Bob Hercules didn't set out to become the Ken Burns of the American dance world. But for the last three years, the Chicago-based documentary film writer and director has turned his focus on two of the country's high-profile dance ensembles: the Bill T....

There are other helpful touches. If you load more than one clip into an iMovie project, for instance, it weaves them together with smooth transitions, and if you add photos, iMovie automatically adds movement to them via the "Ken Burns" panning effect.

There are other helpful touches. If you load more than one clip into an iMovie project, for instance, it weaves them together with smooth transitions, and if you add photos, iMovie automatically adds movement to them via the “Ken Burns” panning effect.

The G2 Gallery has begun a weekly screening of Ken Burns’s six-part documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The screenings provide a deeper understanding from a historical perspective of the people and places that shaped America’s national...

McCullough about the Brooklyn Bridge," said Burns, adding that he accepted it with some hesitation. "I read it in one sitting. Then I walked out in my pajamas and told my film partners, 'We're doing a story on the Brooklyn Bridge.'" View full sizeStaff...

It's especially timely because of the public's renewed fascination with the Roaring 20s, including such popular productions as HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," the PBS documentary "Prohibition" by Ken Burns, Woody Allen's Oscar-nominated "Midnight in Paris,"...

If left-handed people comprise only 10% of the population, why were 50% of the Beatles left-handed (Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr)? And lefties are disproportionate in categories like execs (Jeffrey Katzenberg, Brad Grey, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates),...

Nelson first became aware of the existence of the league in the 1990s, when he was commissioned to do a painting about it while still a student at the Pratt Institute. Doing research lead him to the Ken Burns documentary about baseball, particularly...

They called the evening haunting and melodic.” Ken Waldman—Alaska’s “Fiddling Poet” whose show has been compared with a “Ken Burns movie”—will continue the 2011-12 season of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Arts & Issues series Feb. 22, in...

He can type jokes faster than writing them by hand, uninterrupted from the constant e-mails that pop up on his desktop. When Martin is not writing jokes, he passes the time by reading non-fiction and listening to music. Lately, he has been on a jazz...

With more than 20 years of punishing riffs beneath, between, and behind them, the melodic band has become downright legendary in influence in its death-metal universe. But juxtaposing hardened extremes with tuneful, borderline proggy-orchestral...

At a gala Monday for Room to Grow, an organization that equips needy parents with children's items and support, guests attested to just how hard it is to raise kids."Parenthood is the largest, but the most exclusive, club on earth," said Ken Burns, the...

This video is taken from some 1957 pro-stock that I’ve owned for years. The transfer was done on a Spirit DataCine (i.e. the same machine that Ken Burns uses to transfer historic footage for his PBS documentaries). The entire reel is 20 minutes. These...