An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

Rosenwald Ken Burns was in his studio working on the final ... It might be jazz. It might be World War II. Obviously the presidency. Vietnam. Really all of the kinds of things that we’ve done.

Ken Burns was in his studio working on the final ... It might be jazz. It might be World War II. Obviously the presidency. Vietnam. Really all of the kinds of things that we’ve done.

He received some of the top awards given to historians, including the Parkman and Bancroft prizes, was a political analyst for CBS and NBC and consulted on several of Ken Burns’ PBS documentaries.

NEW YORK (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New ...

Leuchtenburg, Eminent Presidential Historian and Ken Burns Consultant ... Perils of Prosperity," a history of the U.S. from World War I to the peak of the Great Depression. Although politically ...