How Presidents Day turned from reverence to retail
The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in ...
How George Washington's Silence Shaped America's Most Powerful Office
Why would the founders, so meticulous in their planning, leave the powers of the presidency so remarkably brief and vague in ...
Michael Peregrine: Why we must continue to venerate George Washington
As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...
Presidential historian calls for end to 'silly' Presidents' Day, compares it to celebrating a king's birthday
Presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky suggested on Monday that Presidents' Day was ridiculous and should be canceled, ...
Lawmakers propose redesigning the Washington state flag
Some Washington lawmakers are pushing to redesign the state's flag, and have introduced a bill to get the process started. House Bill 1938 would create a Washington State Flag Redesign Committee that ...
Historian Lindsay Chervinsky on MSNBC: Presidents' Day Is Silly, "I'm Not Sure We Really Want To Be Celebrating All Presidents"
George Washington Presidential Library executive director and presidential historian Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky said on MSNBC's ...
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Washington’s Birthday celebrations were useful to both sides in Civil War, and huge in Cambridge
George Washington was born in the Colony of Virginia on Feb. 22, 1732, and, within his lifetime, his birthday had become a ...
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MSNBC Guest Calls on U.S. to Cancel Presidents’ Day — Argues Trump Is an Example of Why: ‘We’ve Had Some Real Duds’
Chervinsky called for the US to cancel Presidents Day, arguing that instead citizens should “celebrate actions” and that it ...