One thing you can say about most biographies is that the first part is absorbing and the rest is ho-hum. How a distinguished person became a distinguished person is interesting. Not so interesting is ...

George M. Cohan, the son of Irish immigrants — often described as the man who owned Broadway — dominated American theater from 1901 until 1940. During those four decades, the man born on the Fourth of ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - There's nothing quite like seeing American violinist Joshua Bell play "Yankee Doodle Dandy" on his 1713 Stradivarius while tapping his foot like a fiddler at a barn dance.

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 ...

With our nation increasingly divided, several media gurus over the July 4 break decreed that Hollywood owed filmgoers a “feel-good-about-America” movie. Something unifying and patriotic, like a ...

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 ...

Roughly 250 years ago, a political insult by British troops during the American Revolution was converted into a rallying cry by the colonials. “Yankee Doodle Dandy” was intended to mock the ...

This might be the year of chicken tenders — one of Long Island's tastiest purveyors has opened a second location, in Babylon. Yankee Doodle Dandy's is a patriotic-themed chicken spot that opened its ...

Yesterday marked the 234th anniversary of our nation’s defiant pronouncement of independence from British rule, when Thomas Jefferson, a member of the Continental Congress who was largely responsible ...

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