The nickname is hardly a new one. “America’s Yankee Doodle Town” appears on the town’s stationery, while the Yankee Doodle Homecoming brings Billericans together each year to celebrate the town’s ...

Yankee Doodle Pops is one of the biggest annual gatherings in Iowa. This year, the Des Moines Symphony's 30th concert and fireworks show drew close to 100,000 people, spread across downtown from the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe. The original lyrics to one of America's best-known songs, one associated with the American Revolution, were actually written a couple ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Wish “Yankee Doodle” a happy 250th birthday. Maybe. The original lyrics to one of America’s best-known songs, one associated with the American Revolution, were actually written a ...

Some books are worth reading multiple times, and “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” (2000), by Joseph J. Ellis, is one of those great works. Several years ago it had been on my summer ...