As July 4, 2026, approaches, Americans will be paying more attention than usual to events of 1776: the year the American ...

As we all know, 2026 is the year of the semiquincentennial of the United States. Two-hundred and fifty years is a pretty ...

Begins with Pete Seeger singing with a child, "Where is Thubmkin?" then tapes is a collection of Wallace House revolutionary war songs interspersed with Pete Seeger renditions of the same songs, most ...

Yankee Doodle was an idiot. Also a hayseed, a yokel, a hick and a doofus. When he came riding on his pony, sticking a feather in his cap and calling it macaroni, he was the 18th century equivalent of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Revere made the engraving used in the frontispiece of 'The New-England Psalm-Singer,' a tune book William Billings published ...