Research Paper On Yankee Dooddle

Before doing the readings for this class I had never thought of how many different mythological people are in United States history. I had heard of many of these ideas, but I had never thought of them as myths. One person that I was particularly interested in was Yankee Doodle. I, like many children growing up in the United States, had grown up singing about him. I only remember singing the first verse of the second variation in the book “Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America” (p.45). I had heard that it was an old war song, but I never thought about if Yankee Doodle was a real person or not. He did not have a typical name so I figured it was just some silly song. As I grew up I was introduced to the movie “Yankee Doodle Dandy” about the