One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, ...

NEW YORK -- William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

Leuchtenburg, Eminent Presidential Historian and Ken Burns Consultant ... U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at 102.

Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression ... for CBS and NBC and consulted on several of Ken Burns' PBS documentaries. In 2008, he was given the Arthur ...