Troubles Along the US-Mexico Border
The border between the United States and Mexico has long been a matter of concern for both countries.
Tag: Lincoln
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?
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.
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.