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Lincoln, Grant, and Holiday Observances

Gerald D. Swick December 16, 2018 Once, in America history blogLeave a comment

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

Gerald D. Swick December 9, 2018 Once, in America history blogLeave a comment

Retailers have been turning the flying reindeer loose in October for over 100 years.

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Thanksgiving a ‘Yankee Abolitionist Holiday’

Thanksgiving a ‘Yankee Abolitionist Holiday’

Gerald D. Swick November 19, 2018 Once, in America history blogLeave a comment

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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