Inside the nationwide celebrations for the author's 250th birthday and the new generation of readers discovering her 19th ...

Pronounced “Old Lang Zyne,” experts say it started as a poem, and has since become a song that is now a staple in New Year’s ...

One of America’s great Christmas songs grew out of procrastination. Two friends — a rector and his organist at the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square — found the inspiration in the ...

A timeless letter from 8‑year‑old Virginia O’Hanlon and the New York Sun’s legendary reply asks a question that still matters ...

This is a reprint of a timeless column written years ago by the journalist . More than a hundred years ago, an 8-year-old ...

His famous editorial didn’t run on Christmas Day. It appeared on Sept. 21. It was the seventh editorial on the page.

Birthed as it was on the eve of another revolution, Cappeau and Adam’s song was praised by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine ...

One of the most famous letters to the editor ever published was written by an 8-year-old girl who had doubts about Santa ...

Every year, the Sentinel republishes the timeless story behind the most famous letter to the editor and editorial ever ...

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis ...