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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.
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....
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