Happy Franksgiving: Why FDR Rescheduled Turkey Day
On Thanksgiving Day 1924, when Santa Claus showed up in Herald Square at the end of the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, an unwritten agreement was struck between retailers and consumers:...
View ArticleFour Years Before Women Had the Right to Vote, Jeannette Rankin Was Elected...
In 1916, four years before the Constitution recognized her right to vote, Jeannette Rankin was elected to Congress. While women had not achieved suffrage across the U.S. yet, there were no laws...
View ArticleWhy is the Retirement Age 65?
In the early 1880s, Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck of Germany had a problem. Marxist unrest was spreading across Europe and some of his own countrymen were calling for socialist reforms. To take the...
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