Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than six months after the United States officially entered World War II, actor James Cagney's most acclaimed film — and ...
Eleven hundred students jammed the auditorium of Manhattan’s High School of Music & Art to pick a war song for the U.S. Army’s 9th Division at Fort Bragg. For a month the high school’s student body ...
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 ...
A 19th-century painting of the siege of Yorktown, with the Marquis de Lafayette depicted to the right of George Washington (center, right). A popular story suggests that Lafayette ordered the ...