Some books are worth reading multiple times, and “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” (2000), by Joseph J. Ellis, is one of those great works. Several years ago it had been on my summer ...

This coming Friday will mark the 249th birthday of our nation, and as has been the theme for so many years past, it will be filled with many celebrations, marked by parades, patriotic music, and ...

Less than six months after the United States officially entered World War II, actor James Cagney's most acclaimed film — and you'll see why in the following Yankee Doodle Dandy facts — arrived in ...

Pop quiz: Which of the following songs are familiar to you? "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Give My Regards to Broadway," "It's a Grand Old Flag," "Over There." For extra credit, how many of these songs ...

Washington probably did stand while crossing Delaware, but not in a rowboat. Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware during a Press Preview for the Metropolitan Museum ...

Chet Atkins is one of the most prolific guitarists of the midcentury Nashville country scene, combining elements of jazz and bluegrass to make his guitar sing in a way that most people could only ...

WEBVTT It's one of Central Iowa's most popular July 4th traditions.. the Des Moines Symphony's 21st annual Yankee Doodle Pops Celebration.. is tonight! KCCI's Kim St. Onge is LIVE near the state ...

"Yankee Doodle Dandy" is rah-rah, rousingly American and great box office, no matter how you slice it. It's a tribute to a grand American gentleman of the theatre - George M. Cohan - whose life and ...