World-renowned astrophysicist, author and host of PBS NOVA's spinoff, " NOVA Science Now ", Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is coming ...

Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest shocked an expert by bringing in a family portrait that came with a spooky origin story.

A PBS documentary profiles the storied diplomat who was obsessed, for better and worse, with keeping his adopted country safe ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

That manner of activation of a still image, now widely known as the Ken Burns Effect (thanks partly to Apple iMovie, where it ...

Hurricane Melissa is the strongest storm to hit Jamaica in recent history. It has already caused fatalities in Haiti and the ...

Tonight in Washington, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is holding its annual gala. This year’s ...

The decisions fell mostly along party lines, with Trump touting on social media Wednesday that he had “won BIG” in Alaska in ...

Category 5 is the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale with sustained winds exceeding 157 mph. Melissa would be the strongest hurricane in recorded history to directly hit the small Caribbean nation, ...

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein talked about their new PBS series, "The American Revolution," and related modern lessons that come from the historical era.