Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we’ll give one to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you to support Vox’s journalism and ...

Some books are worth reading multiple times, and “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation” (2000), by Joseph J. Ellis, is one of those great works. Several years ago it had been on my summer ...

When dusk falls tonight, most Americans probably will be thinking of fireworks, parades and Independence Day barbecues. But to anyone who loves a great old American tune, this 4th of July signifies ...

George M. Cohan, the son of Irish immigrants — often described as the man who owned Broadway — dominated American theater from 1901 until 1940. During those four decades, the man born on the Fourth of ...

Few people waved the flag as vigorously as George M. Cohan. The story behind the man who wrote the song that stirred American souls during World War I, Over There, is featured in Yankee Doodle Dandy ...