History Lesson: Paul Revere
Paul Revere was a famous American drunk and exhibitionist who lived during the height of the Revolutionary War. He is best remembered for stealing a horse and riding through the …
History Lesson: Black Friday
Black Friday is an American holiday created by R.H. Macy & Co. in the late 1800s to kick off the Christmas gift-buying season and punish retail employees for having the …
History Lesson: Valentine’s Day
St. Valentine was a good-looking, shaggy-haired priest of unknown Christian denomination living in Rome during the late 200s, and was, in fact, one of the first teen idols. The adoration …
History Lesson: Thanksgiving, Part II
Why Do We Eat Turkey? Of all the myriad animals in the world, why do we ritualistically genocide turkeys each November? Why not cows? Or gazelles? Or poor people? The …
History Lesson: Halloween
The story of what we now know as Halloween started a long time ago, on a dark night much like this one, across the ocean, in a country that isn’t …