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 ...

George M. Cohan, often described as the man who owned Broadway, dominated American theater from 1901 until 1940. During that four-decade period, the man — born on the Fourth of July as the son of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With our nation increasingly divided, several media gurus over the July 4 break decreed that Hollywood owed filmgoers a “feel-good-about-America” movie. Something unifying and patriotic, like a ...