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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Give my regards to Broadway --You're a grand old flag -- I'm a Yankee Doodle dandy --Over there --This way ladies and gentlemen --As the nose goes --This country needs a man like me --If I appear ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...