Two years ago, HBO took 8 1/2 hours to chronicle the life of John Adams; starting Sunday, History will take us from the colonizing of Jamestown through the millennium in just 12. “ America: The ...

THE first clue that “America: The Story of Us” isn’t your typical PBS-style documentary comes five minutes in. After actors re-create the early travails of the settlers at Jamestown and ...

The History channel’s 'America: The Story of Us' premiers its six-part series this Sunday.