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 ...

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 ...

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 ...