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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
...we thought it might be interesting to explore what the soldiers ate during that war and how they celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday.
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog post is about the John Adams building of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, John Adams Building
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
While thinking about a topic for this year’s Labor Day blog post, I was reviewing what we had done in the past and I realized quite a few were labor-related. So I decided that instead of writing something entirely new, a review of previous blog posts would make a good post. A Factory, a …
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This blog post is about the history of the ZIP code.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Sixteenth that I am referring to is the 16th Amendment to the Constitution which is the amendment that created the Income Tax. Ratification by the requisite number of states was completed on February 3, 1913 when Delaware became the 36th state to ratify. Thereafter, another six joined including New Mexico and Wyoming which also …
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History