Newspapers, we all agree, are not what they were. The thing we don't agree on is why. Is it the internet? Or the decline in reading? Is it because reporters are biased? Or because reporters are so ...

John Philip Sousa, the king of the American march, used to slip transcriptions of classical composers into his concerts. It gave his players a break from the patriotic, heart-clutching, spirited romps ...

Pretend, if you can, that you are in Cape May on the morning of August 20, 1882, the prime time for summer tourism then, a period when the ocean is usually at its warmest, when thousands flock to the ...

If you knew Sousa -- Sousa's Washington (1854-1874) -- There's no business like show business (1874-1881) -- Semper fi (1881-1892) -- Sousa's peerless concert band ...