Alex Garland’s incendiary “Civil War” is now in theaters, and it’s sure to get people talking. The film imagines a near-future where America is engaged in another Civil War, this time with multiple ...

“To care for him who shall have borne the battle.” When Nancy Klimek, recreation manager at the Grand Island Veterans Home, gave that quote from President Abraham Lincoln, she tied the past and ...

The Civil Rights movement used music extensively, with songs like "People Get Ready" serving as anthems. Many protest songs from the 1960s remain relevant and are still sung at demonstrations today.

Civil War heroine Arabella Barlow, born in Somerville in 1824, a great-granddaughter of the Wallace family of Wallace House who hosted George Washington’s winter headquarters and Hardenbergh family of ...

ROCHESTER — The Rochester Area Historical Society will sponsor the program, “Songs of the Civil War,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Rochester Municipal Building, 300 W. Spring St. Doors open at ...

Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...

Horton said music was especially important during the Civil War when other forms of entertainment that offered relief from the battle were not available. “Music historians have estimated that about ...

What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” were fond of a song praising goober peas (“Goodness, how ...

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Music played a key role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Bob Dylan took the message to the masses in recordings as enduring as "A Change is ...