Both are invested with powers that reach mythological proportions. Simply by the title they hold, each represents a long history of various traditions and customs which is nothing less than their duty to carry out. Within the seemingly secret realms… Read More ›
Holidays
Different demographics in different regions shaping Holidays with American style.
The Southern Belle Mother of Hanukkah & How the Festival Became a Holiday: An Archives Article
She”s been entirely forgotten, but she was a feminist, a slaveholder, a spitfire, a spinster and a brilliant writer of wit, piety and iron will, and without her the United States and even the world would likely not be seeing… Read More ›
“A Nation without Cranberry Sauce!” The Red Relish Panic of Thanksgiving 1959
It was a red the likes of which truly flipped out Americans for the last Thanksgiving of the decade. Just beneath the giddy Fabulous Fifties decade of I Love Lucy, hula hoops, bigger, better Caddies, Elvis and rock & roll… Read More ›
Mamie, Jackie, Lady Bird & Pat: Thanksgiving & Four First Ladies of the Mid-Century
From Thursday, November 20 until Sunday November 23, 2014, the National First Ladies Library Blog is running a four-part series pegged to the upcoming holiday, “Thanksgiving and Mid-Century Modern First Ladies.” Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson and Pat… Read More ›
The Dad Who Inspired Father’s Day & Maybe the Pop-Up Card: From the Archives
No greeting card historian has yet found the missing link to prove it, but some believe the claim that the “Pop” of Father’s Day inspired the first true Pop-up cards, ignoring that some rudimentary form of it first appeared in… Read More ›
Which State Started Memorial Day? An Archives Article
Granted, for most Americans the three-day Mem0rial Day Weekend marks the beginning of yet another halcyon season of summertime, the chance to clean off and fire up the grill for the first time this year or hit the beach… Read More ›
The Kooky Dame Who Started Mother’s Day – Then Tried to Destroy It: From the Archives
In recent months, a number of personal and professional obligations has limited the time necessary to generate the amount of new articles which have typically appeared on carlanthonyonline.com. In reviewing the several hundred original-content articles which are rather deeply buried… Read More ›
Presidents, the Irish & the Clinton St. Patrick’s Day Parties
Even if it took a century and a half, there were hopes to make the White House green from the start. Just two years after George Washington took his oath of office as the nation’s first chief executive, there was… Read More ›
All Wales that Ends Welsh: The USA’s St. David’s Holiday
San Franciscans may wear flowers in their hair, but if you spot someone with a leek in their hat today, it is more than likely they’re among the small but increasingly visible number of Americans proud of their Welsh ancestry…. Read More ›
The Little Rascals & George Washington: A Small Lift in the Great Depression
There they were, big names among Little Rascals: Wheezer, Stymie and Spanky, along with lesser known Sherwood, (third from left), Kendall and Dorothy (second and third from right), clothes pressed and antics still long enough to gaze with well-behaved… Read More ›
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