When Bob Dylan turned his back on protest music and traditional folk, he burned a lot of bridges; his friendship with Pete Seeger was one of them.

Smithsonian Folkways archivist and Pete Seeger expert Jeff Place talks about Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, due out on what would have been Seeger's 100th birthday.

Even though A Complete Unknown glosses over Pete Seeger's trial, the true story of the FBI investigation and Congress hearing is fascinating.

Pete Seeger, "a tireless campaigner for his own vision of a utopia marked by peace and togetherness," died Monday at the age of 94. As former NPR broadcaster Paul Brown adds in an appreciation he ...

Pete Seeger’s FBI File Reveals How the Folk Legend First Became a Target of the Feds It all started with a letter.

Seeger participated in a number of his rallies and marches, Foner said. "There's nobody comparable that I know of that's had the impact that Pete's had," Foner said.

After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.

Pete Seeger was a teenager in the 1930s when he heard an Appalachian balladeer perform on an old-fashioned, five-string banjo and fell in love with the instrument, the timeless melodies and, most ...

Pete Seeger, the banjo-playing folk singer whose music was indelibly intertwined with his social activism, was honored Thursday as the latest American musician to appear on a US postage stamp. The ...