Most of us can sing the dance tune "Yankee Doodle" without too much trouble. But why is a feather called "macaroni"? Chris Roberts, author of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the ...

The origin of the word Yankee, the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy" explained, and George Washington likely did stand while crossing the Delaware River. And other factoids about the American Revolution.

A typical United States generational beef about clothing, and some poetry, seems to have given us a word that today has one ...

At Mexico City, Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on the railroad; stuck all the feathers in his cap and called it a day. The feathers were Mexico's national tennis titles. Those who took ...

COULD you or any of your readers supply me with the complete score to James Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy. Did it really include the line, Put a feather in his hat and call him Macaroni? - AG Hall ...

“It symbolized something patriotic, like Yankee Doodle came to town,” Bongi told me. Ah, yes! I know the song. It’s the one about the guy who calls a feather in his hat macaroni.

“Yankee Doodle came to town, for to buy a firelock, we will tar and feather him, and so we will John Hancock,” Billerica Historical Society member Richard Hawe recited to the gathered crowd ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe. The original lyrics to one of America's best-known songs, one associated with the American Revolution, were actually written a ...