Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein discuss their six-part, 10-year labor of love, which finally makes it to PBS on6.

The desire to hear someone’s last words has a profoundly human quality. Last words are important because they are the last ...

There is a certain charm to a person’s final words. They are that brief instant when life and eternity meet and language ...

Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative ...