The hub for nonfiction fare aims to help public television “meet new audiences where they already are,” says PBS president ...

The writer of Walden has been flattened into a caricature, but Henry David Thoreau was much more than a "prophetic hermit," ...

Ken Burns produces the first-ever documentary on Henry David Thoreau, which moves beyond famous one-liners to explore his ...

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Rita Coburn says W.E.B. Du Bois was born to tell the story of African Americans. That's one of the observations the longtime ...

A new three-part, three-hour film on Henry David Thoreau will air on PBS Michiana WNIT March 30-31. Executive producers are Ken Burns and Don Henley.

The organizations have jointly launched PBS Documentaries, a new YouTube channel that serves as a hub for long-form ...

"Free For All: The Public Library" looks at the history and contemporary fuctions of the public library system in American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new PBS documentary chronicles the life and influence of Howard Fuller, the former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent and ...

National Geographic’s “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” continues to dominate the News & Documentary Emmy nominations - ...

The new PBS Documentaries YouTube channel offers an expansive collection of documentaries across all forms of nonfiction ...