Most of us can sing the dance tune "Yankee Doodle" without too much trouble. But why is a feather called "macaroni"? Chris Roberts, author of... Reason Behind the Rhyme: 'Yankee Doodle' DEBBIE ELLIOTT ...
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 ...
Jan Peck and David Davis, illus. by Carin Berger, Sterling, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4027-6525-4 Classic nursery rhyme characters are recast in an eco-friendly platform. Yankee Doodle explores green ...
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 ...