The woman who became the face of Great Depression hardship went on to live to age 79 after her car broke down at a Nipomo pea ...

Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the ...

The new documentary 'Caterpillar' follows David Taylor as he gets an opportunity to change his eye color through a ...

Author Kevin Baker, a current Cornell visiting professor in American studies, shared details about his career in writing ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution reveals the human side of America’s founding in a story both messy and magnificent.

We are living in an authoritarian epoch; not only in the United States, but globally. What books and films can offer context, ...

Award-Winning Documentary Calls for Policy Change -- "It's deadlier for a soldier to come home from war than it is to go to combat." ...

In 1898, white supremacists overthrew Wilmington’s elected government, killing dozens and erasing Black political power.

I spent my last days at U.S.A.I.D. in meetings with our civil- and foreign-service leaders, thanking them. Their work with partner countries had helped to contain twenty-one outbreaks of deadly ...

In the last two years, as Israel has carried out a genocide against Palestinians and has all but dropped any pretense of democracy, many Israelis have come to dread telling people what country they ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

Grand pianos and half-full liquor bottles collect dust, while colorful children's playrooms scattered with toys are ...