The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

PBS’s fall shows were in the can before the federal government defunded all public broadcasting this summer, so the full ...

The nominations for the public television station include several for the local “Postcards” and “Prairie Sportsman” programs.

WALPOLE, N.H. -- When Ken Burns' "Civil War" hit public television in 1990, it was a revelation: Burns invested a faded period of American history with new life, color and emotion. The public does not ...

Mary McCormack pays tribute to those who defended our nation in the Global War on Terror. Mary McCormack pays tribute to our service men and women who have shown ...

PBS has been a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. But with the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, nonfiction storytellers have to figure out a way forward.

Ken Burns, one of the most critically acclaimed documentary filmmakers of the modern age, says the current threats to defund public media are likely the most existential the system has ever seen. “I ...