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Posted by: Stephen Winick
As you may have figured out, our previous post about having discovered the origin of all folklore everywhere was an April Fools’ Day practical joke. If you followed the link to the podcast, you actually heard about the roots of the April Fools’ Day tradition. This post is to set the record straight! Episode six …
Posted in: April Fool's Day, Podcasts, Uncategorized
Posted by: Lisa Taylor
The following is a guest blog post by Owen Rogers, Liaison Specialist for the Veterans History Project (VHP). Among VHP’s oral histories, memoirs and correspondence, we frequently find humorous anecdotes about jokes, pranks and creative punishments. This post began as an “April Fools” ruse developed from some of the more absurd scenarios recounted by veterans …
Posted in: African Americans, April Fool's Day, Civil Rights, Holidays, Korean War, Narratives, Oral History, Photographs, Practical Jokes, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, Vietnam War, World War II
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: A shorter version of this article was published in the March/April 2016 issue of LCM: Library of Congress Magazine. Download a pdf here. We also transformed this article into episode 6 of our podcast. Find the podcast at this link! Scan your favorite newspapers or news websites this April 1, and chances are you’ll …
Posted in: April Fool's Day, Holidays, Practical Jokes