Mental Floss has an article about why we eat pumpk...  ...th and the South that developed leading up to the Civil War . “Thanksgiving was, above all, a New Englan...  ...elbaum put it in her book “Thanksgiving: An American Holiday, an ...

Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine is the...  ...by Tall Barney Beal, who lived there to avoid the Civil War draft. Tall Barney bequeathed the island to the f...  ...osition, which is to claim the disputed island as American territory without making too much of a fuss....

The United States, while ostensibly welcoming immi...  ...mmigrants from -of all places- Canada. During the Civil War , shipments of cotton from the South ceased and Ne...  ...nd mills shut down. As business resumed after the war , nearly a million French-Canadian workers arriv...

<p>“Cleanliness is next to god...  ...ious terms.</p><blockquote>Before the Civil War , the authors explain, a kind of “cleanlines...  ...ional accessory, not a staple. But, by the 1930s, Americans placed soap second only to food as the most impor....

Ever since the Continental Congress adopted the st...  ...gress adopted the stars and stripes design as the American flag, it has been used profusely for all kinds of...  ...cheme became recognizable all over the world. The American flag was always popular, but only with the Civil...

<p><a href="https:// civilwartails .com/" target="_blank"> Civil War Tails</a> is a museum in Gettysburg, Pennsy...  ...ysburg, Pennsylvania that commemorates the famous American Civil War campaign...

In the mid-19th century, American silver companies were doing pretty well, thanks t...  ...uring the Gilded Age that followed the end of the Civil War , the RISD exhibition and Rizzoli book devote a go...

One of the greatest of the 1950's TV Weste...  ...d Boone) was a West Point graduate who, after the Civil War , settled into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton (a re...  ...racism and injustice against the Chinese and the American Indians, for example, exhibited a rigid moral cod...

In 1860, there were only 300 women physicians in t...  ...er began her practice in the waning months of the Civil War , and answered the call where she was needed. Ema...  ...where she was needed. Emancipation and the long war left millions of African- *strong class="match...

Before Homeland Security, before discount airlines...  ...rity, before discount airlines, before even World War II, commercial flying was very different from wha...  ...career in Los Angeles. According to the story, an American Airlines pilot found her as a kitten behind an as...  ...n alleyway and turned her ov...