Lincoln, Grant, and Holiday Observances
Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Did you know Ulysses S. Grant did the same for Christmas and Fourth of July?
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Christmas Shopping in October – A Not-So-New Idea
Retailers have been turning the flying reindeer loose in October for over 100 years.
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.