Different demographics in different regions shaping Holidays with American style.
On February 14, 1901, just over three months after he won re-election to a second term and eighteen days before his second inauguration, President William McKinley and his wife, First Lady Ida McKinley hosted the fourth of the five White… Read More ›
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. So the song claims. Family arguments. Memories of emotional loss. Fruitcake. Credit card debt. Office party inappropriateness. Humor gets humanity through the worst of times. And at Christmastime, humor beget from horror seems… Read More ›
In the post-World War II era of consumerism that marked the 1950s, American children began heading out to trick-or-treat on Halloween by the hundreds of thousands, redefining ancient Celtic rituals marking All Hallow’s Eve that were first brought to the… Read More ›
Since that day of July 4, 1776. when its independence was first declared by the American colonies upon the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, the United States has marked Independence Day for 240 years. It was only thirteen years… Read More ›
Living before a perpetual public eye, they’re intensely self-conscious. And that’s how most of them have wanted it to be. Before discovering they can literally get the attention of the whole world by slipping on a tarmac, carrying a garment… Read More ›
Republican and Democratic. Summer and Winter. Science and Religion. Men and Women. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. Like so much of the national dialogue, even this festive period of the calendar has been reduced to a winner-take-all Team Red versus… Read More ›
No matter how empathetic a person may be who pauses today to remember the millions of American military forces who served in armed conflict, the experience of war can’t help but remain an abstract one. Those who’ve known what it’s… Read More ›
Yesterday, October 11, was once traditionally celebrated in cities with large Polish-American populations as the traditional Pulaski Day, marking the day that Count Casimir Pulaski, a native of Warka, Poland, heroically died in 1779 while fighting for American independence. By the… Read More ›
There was a homeopath who adored his son and a tanner who exploited his. Two were humble farmers offering practical advice that charmed the nation. Three were diplomats, two being Ambassadors to Great Britain, one of them being the first to serve… Read More ›
Everyday must have seemed like Mother’s Day to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sara Delano Roosevelt wouldn’t have permitted it any other way. “Am I proud of being an historic mother?!” she waspishly repeated a question rudely thrown her way by reporters. “Indeed… Read More ›
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