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From Brushstrokes to Limestone: How Indiana Celebrated the 1976 Bicentennial
September 25, 2025
Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, celebrates an almost mythical moment during the American Revolution. Yet a stone carver from Bedford, Indiana, Frank Arena Jr., maximized the drama even more by carving a life-sized, limestone version to celebrate the United States Bicentennial in 1976. Across Indiana speaks to his family about this patriotic achievement.
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Official Trailer | The Revolution that Changed the World
November 16, 2025
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary from Ken Burns.
The First Shot
November 16, 2025
A single shot echoes on Lexington Green, and the American Revolution begins.
'We Are in the Very Midst of a Revolution'
November 16, 2025
John Adams, read by Paul Giamatti. The American Revolution premieres November 16.
'We Would Not Have Had a Country Without Him'
November 16, 2025
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed. The American Revolution premieres November 16.
The American Revolution: An Inside Look
August 8, 2025
Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to...
Across Indiana | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The War in the West
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The Revolutionary War in the West was a war for land, fought between colonial and native peoples....
Simple Civics | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
How the Patriots "Out-Spied" the British
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Invisible ink, secret codes, and dirty laundry helped the patriots turn the tide of the Revolution....
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