Today in Music History for Nov. 17: In 1938, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born in Orillia, Ont.

"Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth." Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. He was the third of four children in a family ...

Thanksgiving is one of those few national holidays when a semi-religious sentiment is allowed. It peeks through in reply to two obvious questions: Thanksgiving to whom for what? In search of an answer ...