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 ...

DAVID GREENBERG, who teaches history and media studies at Rutgers University, wrote the text for "Presidential Doodles," published by Basic Books. THE ART OF DOODLING is an ancient one. Prehistoric ...

Protest music has a deep and rich history in the United States. One could even say it was born right alongside it. From "Yankee Doodle" being sung back in defiance at the British soldiers who ...

There are more possibilities than you might think—it could’ve originated as an insult, a nickname, or a mispronunciation. The Spirit of '76, originally titled Yankee Doodle, was painted by Ohio native ...