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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Driving west on the Mohawk Trail from Greenfield this past weekend, we stumbled upon Yankee Doodle Days, Charlemont's yearly smorgasbord of all things fair-like. Meandering up the hill from the center ...