In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water showers and absolutely nothing ...
Contributor Kelley Libby visits a shape note sing event in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Sometimes this style of singing is referred to as Sacred Harp. That’s because ...
One of America’s greatest composers was Aaron Copland, who wrote among other things, an opera called The Tender Land, which premiered at the New York City Opera in 1954. More ...
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Marshall Expedition, an important event in the history of early American commerce. Recently, a group of twenty-somethings from ...