The Rootinest, Tootinest Cowboy Singer by Johnny D. Boggs2/23/20242/8/2024 Riders in the Sky founder ‘Ranger Doug’ Green keeps writing, performing and teaching others about Western music.
In Patriotic Melodies in the Civil War North, “Freedom” Wasn’t Necessarily a Cry for African-American Emancipation by Gary W. Gallagher2/15/20242/9/2024
A Pacifist Scribbled A Song When She Was Half-Asleep. It Became A Famous Union Battle March by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/15/202312/15/2023
At Auschwitz, Jews Composed Music in Secret. Now Their Works Are Being Performed in London. by Claire Barrett12/5/202312/5/2023
This World War I Draftee Hated Mornings And Wrote A Song About It. It Made Him A Superstar. by Zita Ballinger Fletcher10/17/202310/17/2023
African American Theater Performers Turned Stereotype Upside Down by Daniel B. Moskowitz10/11/202310/11/2023
This Fight Song Has Inspired People From the 18th Century Wales All the Way to 9/11 by Zita Ballinger Fletcher6/20/20236/22/2023
Maine Has a State Ballad? Listen to the Song that Was Inspired By the Battle of Gettysburg by Dana B. Shoaf5/11/20235/11/2023
How the Civil War Inspired This 19th-Century Poet’s Classic Christmas Song by Melissa A. Winn12/7/202212/7/2022
The Navy Let Cher Perform on the USS Missouri in 1989. It’s Regretted It Ever Since. by Claire Barrett10/19/202210/20/2022