Holidays
     
  Christmas
  1. Today in History: Time for a Visit from St. Nicholas (December 24)
  2. Today in History: Welcome Christmas (December 25)
  3. Christmas Day (stories, images, video)
  4. 1900 Christmas Gift Book (catalogue)
  5. A Trip to the Springs and a Ride Around Randolph (written monologue)
  6. Merry Christmas to G.I. Joe (painting)
  7. Christmas Cards sent to Charles & Ray Eames
  8. It Was My Father's Custom: A Merry Christmas Song (songsheet)
  9. More Christmas songsheets
  10. Mrs. Fogarty's Christmas Cake (song)
  11. Venid Pastores/Come, Shepherds (Spanish song)
  12. Pastorak Orven Deznek/The Shepherds Are Rejoicing (Hungarian song)
  13. Christmas Breakfast (oral history)
  14. Santa Claus Hides in Your Phonograph (audio story)
  15. TR Calls on Neighbors at Christmas (video)
  16. Grandma and the Bad Boys: Preparing Christmas Pastry (video)
  17. Christmas: Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
  18. Christmas images
  19. Nativity images
  20. Santa Claus images
 
     
     
  Hanukkah & Kwanzaa
  1. Today in History: Happy Hanukkah (December 15)
  2. American Hanukkah lamp (image)
  3. Chanucka celebration by the Young Men's Hebrew Association, 1880 (image)
  4. Look for information about Kwanzaa on Thomas (legislative records) and Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum
 
     
     
  New Year
  1. New Year's Eve, 1876   (lithograph)
  2. Happy New Year, 1877   (Currier & Ives lithograph)
  3. Approach of the New Year, 1877   (lithograph)
  4. Waiting for the Hour [Emancipation]: Dec. 31, 1862   (print)
  5. New Year Reception at the White House, 1927   (photo)
  6. Blowing horns on Bleeker Street on New Year's Day, 1943   (photo)
  7. New Year's Images   (photo)
  8. Leonard Bernstein Family New Year's Cards  
  9. The Holidays Are Over   (songsheet)
  10. The Old Year. 1877. The New Year. 1878.   (songsheet)
  11. Portuguese New Year's Songs  
  12. New Year's Eve. [The Century Jan. 1892]   (article)
  13. New Year's Eve: 1867 v. 1917   (cartoon)
  14. New Year Callers, 1952   (cartoon)
  15. Havana, New Year's Day, 1899   (video)
  16. "Vaudeville frolic" Gala Midnight Show New Year's Eve   (poster)
 
     
     
  Valentine's Day
  1. Jump Back in Time: February 14 (Valentine's Day)  
  2. Today in History: February 14
  3. For Saint Valentine's day (sheet music)
  4. More Valentine's music
  5. St. Valentine's morning, 1860 (wood engraving)
  6. Valentine's images
 
     
     
  Independence Day
  1. Jump Back in Time: July 4, 1776 (Independence Day)  
  2. Today in History: July 4
  3. The Star Spangled Banner: The Story & the Song (for younger and older students)
  4. The Star Spangled Banner Song Collection
  5. Patriotic melodies
  6. Independence Day poster, between 1936-39
  7. Independence Day images
  8. July 4th Images
 
     
     
  Thanksgiving
  1. Thanksgiving primary source set  
  2. Thanksgiving timeline
  3. Founders Give Thanks: Congressional proclamation issued on October 11, 1782
  4. Thanksgiving Remembered: stories from history
  5. In Celebration of Thanksgiving: The Meal, a Sermon, and a Poem   (photo)
  6. Who Celebrated the "First Thanksgiving"?
  7. Thanksgiving treasures
  8. Home to Thanksgiving, 1867 (Currier & Ives lithograph)
  9. Thanksgiving images
 
     
     
  More Holidays
  1. St. Patricks Day (stories, images, music)
  2. Today in History: St. Patricks Day (March 17)
  3. St. Patricks Day in America
  4. St. Patricks Day images
  5. Everybody Plays the Fool (article)
  6. April Fools' Day (stories, videos, comic)
  7. Today in History: April Fool! (April 1)
  8. April Fools Day images
  9. Easter: Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
  10. Easter images
  11. A Slovak Easter Song
  12. Easter hymns
  13. First Arbor Day: April 10, 1872
  14. Today in History: First Arbor Day (April 10)
  15. Arbor Day: Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
  16. Arbor Day images
  17. First Earth Day April 22, 1970
  18. Today in History: Earth Day (April 22)
  19. Arbor Day: Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
  20. Honor Your Mother (article)
  21. The First Mother's Day: May 9, 1914
  22. Today in History: Celebrating Mothers (May 9)
  23. Mother's Day images
  24. Honor Your Mother (article)
  25. The First Mother's Day: May 9, 1914
  26. Today in History: Celebrating Mothers (May 9)
  27. America Singing [to mothers]: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
  28. Mother's Day images
  29. First Official Memorial Day: May 30, 1868 (stories and images)
  30. Today in History: Memorial Day (May 30)
  31. Memorial Day (poster)
  32. Memorial Day: Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
  33. Memorial Day images
  34. Honor Your Father (article)
  35. Father " son banquet (poster)
  36. America Singing [to fathers]: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
  37. The Very First Labor Day September 5, 1882 (stories and images)
  38. Today in History: The First Labor Day (September 5)   (photo)
  39. Labor day parade march, 1896 (song sheet)
  40. Labor Day parade, c. 1904 (film)
  41. Labor Day: Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
  42. Labor Day images
  43. Today in History: Columbus Day (October 12)   (photo)
  44. Christopher Columbus Saw Land! (stories and images)
  45. Christopher Columbus march song (song sheet)
  46. Columbus and the discovery of America: a grand dramatic, operatic, and ballet spectacle (script)
  47. Columbus Day: Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
  48. Columbus Day images
  49. Americans Celebrate Halloween (stories, comics, image)
  50. Today in History: Happy Halloween (October 31)
  51. Halloween images
  52. Veterans Day (stories and images)
  53. Today in History: Veterans Day (November 11)
  54. Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project
  55. Songs for Veterans
  
     
     
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Lithograph by Merinsky, S. after Brueckner, Henry. "St. Claus." 1872. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 		 
     
     
 
Federal Theatre Project. "Vaudeville frolic." Between 1936 and 1941. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 		 
     
     
 
"Saint Valentine's Day." 1861. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 		 
     
     
 
Federal Art Project, WPA. "July 4 -- Independence Day, Illinois." Between 1936 and 1939. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. 		 
     
     
 
"Family at dinner table, Thanksgiving." C. 1901. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 		 
     
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