ALBANY — Wish “Yankee Doodle” a happy 250th birthday. The original lyrics to one of America’s best-known songs, one associated more with the American Revolution, were actually written a couple decades ...

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 ...

And with the girls be handy! This Fourth of July, Americans across the United States will gather together, as they have so many times in the past, to participate in the time-honored American tradition ...

WASHINGTON — The boyish rebel, diminutively described as Yankee Doodle Dandy by English Redcoats in singsong fashion, stuck a feather in his cap and trotted his pony into town. Centuries later, two ...

BILLERICA — Organizers of the annual Yankee Doodle Homecoming will not allow the School Department to host a table promoting the construction of a new Parker Elementary School at this year’s event.