Contents » Commemorations and Holidays
Bicentennial (1976)

Centennial Exhibition (1876)

Colonial Revival

Columbus Day

Constitution Commemorations

Freedom Train

Grand Federal Procession

Kwanzaa

Labor Day

Lafayette’s Tour

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Mother’s Day

National Freedom Day

National Parks

National Register of Historic Places (Sites)

New Year’s Traditions

O Little Town of Bethlehem

ODUNDE Festival

Oh, Dem Golden Slippers

Pennsylvania Emancipation Exposition (1913)

Reminder Days

Saint Patrick’s Day

School Naming
Family names and place names were almost the only names one needed to know when America was composed of small, homogeneous communities. Often interchangeable, such markers signified social and cultural status. But they ceased to be sufficient when America became more diverse and the family less communal. An institution like the school needed a name ⇒ Read More
Sesquicentennial International Exposition (1926)

Thanksgiving

Tourism
