Six months ago, for the first time in 50 years, I sang the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Aloud. In church. Off key. With ...

Sierra Madre Playhouse will present LETTERS TO HARRIET TUBMAN, a family-friendly play celebrating the life of the iconic freedom fighter, starting late February.

The 73rd OVI Regimental Band was founded in 2012 by Huffman and has toured across the country playing at reenactment events, concerts, and private performances. Notably, the group led the Remembrance ...

Music was the heartbeat of the Civil Rights era. It provided a powerful voice for change by transforming spirituals and folk ...

The 10-CD set ‘Classic V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions’ collects more than 200 tracks recorded for American soldiers during the ...

On Jan. 26, 1945, 19-year-old East Texan Audie Murphy almost single-handedly held off a German counteroffensive in occupied ...

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights the causes, the major battles, and the outcome of the American Civil War — ...

Partisan Song” tells how a Jewish engineer from Ukraine became a guerilla war hero. His music will be heard for the first ...

After the Battle of Gettysburg ended, 43-year-old Basil Biggs, a prominent member of the black community in the once-thriving town, returned to his tenant farm to discover the cost of the largest ...

Over the holidays, I tried to do what I usually do at the end of the year: unplug. I drifted into what I half-jokingly call my “pink holiday bubble” — ...

On this edition of Jukebox Journey, as a nod to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Kevin explores the building blocks of American protest music.