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 ›
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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 ›
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