American Songwriter

Born on This Day in 1917, the Country Singer Who Pioneered a Brand-New Guitar Style and Sang About the Exploitation of Coal Miners

Merle Travis, who penned the timeless country hit "Sixteen Tons," was born Nov. 29, 1917, in Rosewood, Kentucky.

Ken Burns Still Thinks America Is Perfectible

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...