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Abraham Lincoln's call for healing national wounds on Thanksgiving applies today as it did back in 1863.

An autograph book containing inscriptions from Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison and many other American historical figures has been donated to the Susan B. Anthony Museum in Adams.

Why is it we can never remember what day it is that Mother's Day falls? I just read something that I guess I either forget or was never aware of. Mother's Day falls on the second Sunday in May. Now, you have it. No excuses! Mother's Day has been around awhile. In fact, next year it will be 150 years since Mother's Day was suggested by Julia Ward Howe. Howe was a writer and a suffragist. She felt it was an opportunity to not only celebrate our mothers but also to unite women and rally for peace. Another daughter by the name of Anna Jarvis years later campaigned for the holiday to observe her ...

This story Philhellene Samuel Gridley Howe in the Greek War of Independence appeared first on GreekReporter.com. The prominent American surgeon and abolitionist Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe because known as “The American Lafayette” for his service during the Greek War of Independence. Credit: Unknown photographer/Public DomainIn this year of the Bicentennial of the Greek War of…

>> it's rainman. >> yeah, that's true. i watch "the people's court" and do that. what i learned from tim was the emotional content of the artistic expressions in the moment. because i would think of things, of course, as, this is what franklin roosevelt did. this was lincoln's emancipation decision. and he pushed me to say, okay, but what's the history of "the battle hymn of the republic"? ♪ it's not just something that emerged from the sky and became this marshal hymn. it was written in one night by julia ward howell at willard's hotel, took john brown's body from the melody, and has totall...