The American Revolution: An Intimate History is a richly illustrated 608-page hardcover book by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, expanding on a landmark six-part PBS series airing in November 2025. This comprehensive account tells the story of America's founding struggle from multiple perspectives, including the Founding Fathers, ordinary soldiers, women, African Americans, Native Americans, and American Loyalists, examining who was truly entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The book features guest essays from distinguished historians Vincent Brown, Maya Jasanoff, Jane Kamensky, and Alan Taylor, providing diverse scholarly perspectives on the Revolutionary War. It contains 30 detailed maps and numerous historical prints, drawings, paintings, and period documents, along with newly commissioned artwork to bring the era to life. Quotations from Thomas Paine are incorporated throughout, connecting revolutionary ideals across the narrative.

Published by Knopf under Penguin Random House, this work presents the American Revolution as simultaneously a war for independence, a civil conflict among colonists, and a world war involving European powers. The audiobook edition runs 22 hours and 49 minutes, narrated by Robert Petkoff, Beth Hicks, Fred Sanders, and Ken Burns himself.