Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...

The Civil Rights movement used music extensively, with songs like "People Get Ready" serving as anthems. Many protest songs from the 1960s remain relevant and are still sung at demonstrations today.

Civil war songs; sung by Frank Warner, with Jeff and Gerret Warner. Table of contents Old Abe Lincoln -- Battle of Bull Run -- Battle cry of freedom -- The twenty-third -- Marching along -- Bonnie ...

Although many of the struggles he addresses in the song are on a more personal scale than systemic oppression, "Alright" is one of three times on the album he references the 40 acres and a mule that ...