How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

In addition to the 70-year anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Rosa Parks Museum is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It opened Dec. 1, 2000. Donna M. Beisel, director of museum ...

Those who know U.S. history or the “legend” behind the creation of Santa Claus will recognize the name Thomas Nast.

The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

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To date, the American Civil War is the bloodiest, most destructive and deadly war in United States history. The death […] ...

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It’s more than the 50 stars on the flag—the American story is suffused with celestial imagery and astronomical symbols.

But after the Civil War, things began to change. In the last year of the war, on November 21, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln looked back on the growing power of the war-enriched corporations, and ...

MOJO traces the dazzling rise and tragic fall of Sly Stone, and hears how he still had music left to share before his death earlier this year.

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The top tier of Jeff Mallett‘s treatise on Christmas traditions in today’s Frazz hits on the American Santa Claus as a ...