There are few human endeavors, from the most joyous to the saddest, that are unaccompanied by song. Weddings, funerals, war, victory. All events of consequence, and also inconsequential ones, like ...

Now that the Olympics are officially underway in London, there will be certain songs that will be inescapable as the world’s finest athletes show their stuff. “Bugler’s Dream,” the Olympic anthem,, ...

On June 19, 1865, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which he read , officially announcing enslaved people were free. Since then, June 19 has ...