holidays

Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.

The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.

From colonial times to the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving was very different from the holiday we know now.

The question is which vision of America it’s being used to advance.

"Honor America Day" was designed to showcase support for President Nixon at a time of bitter division.

How was the Fourth of July celebrated during the Revolutionary War?

Long before “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” holiday songs played a part in the War on Christmas.

Copywriter Robert L. May dreamed up Rudolph during a particularly difficult time in his life.

Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.

It wasn't simply a matter of getting the history right.

After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.

The American commercialized version of Mother's Day isn't what the founder intended.

A digital exhibit from the collections of the Strong National Museum of Play.

Hint: the Puritans were involved.

Though the practice is now more associated with Halloween, spooking out your family is well within the Christmas spirit.

In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.

Nineteenth-century urbanization unleashed the nation's anarchic spirits.

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.

Stephanie Hall provides examples of folklore and storytelling within a fathers' relationship to music.

It’s not just “Cinco De Drinko,” and it isn’t Mexican Independence Day.