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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...