Newspapers, we all agree, are not what they were. The thing we don't agree on is why. Is it the internet? Or the decline in reading? Is it because reporters are biased? Or because reporters are so ...

One hundred years ago this week, Milwaukee threw a birthday bash for the biggest rock star in America. Well, maybe not a rock star — 1924 was a few decades before rock 'n' roll. But John Philip Sousa ...

What would the Fourth of July be without the music of John Philip Sousa? From his iconic “The Stars & Stripes Forever” to stirring marches such as “The Washington Post,” “Semper Fidelis” and “The ...

I. The apprentice -- A capital boyhood -- Into the pit -- A nineteenth-century musical career -- II. The professional -- The centennial city -- A presidential musician -- Civilian music in Washington ...