Thanksgiving a ‘Yankee Abolitionist Holiday’
As sectional tensions grew before the Civil War, Southerners came to regard the New England holiday of Thanksgiving as a tool of abolitionists.
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S-S-S-Smokin’! The long, sometimes humorous, debate over tobacco
Tobacco use has a long and checkered history filled with legends of heroism, health warnings, and sometimes humor.
‘Fake News’ in Abraham Lincoln’s reelection
To prevent the reelection of Abraham Lincoln and other Republicans, two journalists coined a new term, ‘miscegenation,’ and penned a bogus pamphlet supposedly encouraging interracial marriage.