Category: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History

Every Thanksgiving people stock up on the food and ingredients they will need for their feasts. Because retailers want shoppers, and their goal is to let people know what they have and what deals are to be had, special fliers are run in newspapers and commercials are aired on television. This advertisement from the Rock …

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two large ships tied up to the side of the canal with more smaller boats behind them

Panama Canal: Locating Collections at the Library of Congress

August 15, 2014

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

August 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, a tremendous engineering endeavor that has played a major role in trade and commerce over its hundred years.

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Amendments 18 and 21

February 12, 2014

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Eventually Prohibition - and the violence surrounding it - wore out its welcome. By 1930 the anti-Prohibition forces had strengthened their hand in Congress and the need for tax revenues at the federal level during the Depression hastened Prohibition's demise.

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