U.S. History
The Gift the Inventor of Mother’s Day Wanted You To Give
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For Anna Jarvis, Mother’s Day was never about cards or brunch reservations. Her original vision of the day was a quiet one, built around honoring her late mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, a Civil War caregiver and community organizer who spent her life bringing people together. Jarvis’ ideas about what a Mother’s Day gift should be were deeply personal, and she wanted everyone to honor their mom with something equally meaningful. So when the holiday she invented turned into a retail event, she spent decades trying to take it back to its roots. Her First Gift ...Read More
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U.S. HistoryFact53Navy bean soup has been on the Senate menu every day since 1903.
Though no one’s sure who to thank for the tradition — some say Senator Fred Dubois of Idaho, while others credit Minnesota’s Knute Nelson — one item has been on…
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U.S. HistoryFact57In 1941, the U.S. Postal Service moved $9 billion in gold to Fort Knox.
No visitors are allowed at the Fort Knox Bullion Depository, and for good reason: About half of the U.S. Treasury’s gold reserves are stored there, making it one of the…
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U.S. HistoryArticle547 Priceless Facts About the U.S. Mint
With the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 and the Bill of Rights in 1791, citizens of the fledgling United States of America could count on documentation that guaranteed the…
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U.S. HistoryFact102There used to be a 3-cent U.S. coin called the ‘trime.’
One of the lesser-known coins in the history of U.S. currency is the 3-cent silver piece known as the “trime.” In 1851, Congress lowered the cost of mailing a letter…
