As a 71-year-old grandmother, my knees didn’t cooperate when police lifted me to arrest me at the state Capitol in Harrisburg on May 4. I was there as part of a peaceful anti-corruption protest ...

In September 2025, the Trump administration filed a civil Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (or FACE Act) case against pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside a New Jersey synagogue. And in ...

The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859. On board was an impatient young scientist wanting to understand the math and science governing how river ...

As a kid, James Finley watched Ken Burns’ documentaries about the Civil War and baseball over and over. “I remember just being in awe of the people who were talking — how do they know so much? ,” ...

One afternoon in the summer of 1846, Henry David Thoreau left his hut near Walden Pond and walked into town to pick up a shoe he was having mended. He was stopped by the local tax collector, who ...

The Emmy-winning actor voices legendary writer Ralph Waldo Emerson in PBS's new 'Henry David Thoreau' docuseries Getty(2) When Ted Danson hears from Don Henley, he answers. The 78-year-old actor, who ...

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Henry David Thoreau, a, three-part, three-hour film directed by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, and executive produced by Ken Burns and Don Henley, examines the life and work of the ...

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Don Henley was fixing a bite to eat at his Mulholland Drive home one day in late 1989 when a CNN report on the TV in his kitchen caught his attention. “I heard the words ‘Walden ...