The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

It’s not merely that our current era doesn’t compare to the Civil War; it’s that it doesn’t compare to much else, either. “This is the most fraught time, I think, in the history of our ...

Documentary by junior Hangda Zhang highlights life of NU-Q student Mariam Al-Dhubhani. Mariam Al-Dhubhani’s path to Northwestern University in Qatar began with a missile strike. The civil war in her ...

Lentz was a child in the 1990s, when Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary and the movie “Gettysburg” boosted interest in the battle. When he visited Gettysburg with his step-grandmother at age ...