James McPherson’s “Battle Cry of Freedom” is considered by experts to be the best one-volume history of the Civil War. The book covers the...
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H/T: SK A friend posted this fascinating song on his Facebook feed, or whatever it’s called. The YouTube notes say that the song was written by William...
One hundred years ago this week — July 28, 1914 — Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and the First World War began. There is no better book on...
Happy Memorial Day to all. At first it seems odd that “Stars and Stripes Forever,” the great John Philip Sousa march, is such a great acoustic...
Henry Mancini, who wrote a lot of the background music of our lives, would have been ninety years old today. He died in 1994. The Henry Mancini website is...
Irving Berlin (originally Isidor Baline, though there is uncertainty about his first name) quite possibly is the greatest songwriter in American history. One...
The Lower East Side of Manhattan produced a prodigious amount of talent, including the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, The Marx Brothers and the now largely...
