While music has often been relegated to the edges of the curriculum in the U.S., there are many inspiring examples of how learning about, appreciating, playing, and creating music enhances children’s ...

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In the middle of January, with temperatures hovering around zero degrees, John Smith and his colleagues at Smithsonian Folkways drove a truck up to a 19th century homestead in Sharon, Connecticut to ...

Some commentators trace American political traditions not only to particular historical figures, but to the regional cultures of the original colonies, prior to the War for Independence or the ...

The list of record labels founded or co-founded by Jewish entrepreneurs during the 1940s and 50s is a long and luminous one. But as important as such legendary imprints as Atlantic, Chess, King, ...