Holidays

'We Didn't Just Go Viral. We Planned.' Prankster on the Holiday Party Fail Video That Fooled a Bunch of People

By Melissa Locker

How Blue and White Became the Colors of Hanukkah

By Rachel E. Greenspan

Melania Trump Unveils White House Christmas Decorations

By Ashley Hoffman

These Chain Restaurants Will Still Be Open on Thanksgiving

By Raisa Bruner
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Here Are All the Stores Open and Closed on Thanksgiving 2018

Best Buy and Walmart are among the stores open on Thanksgiving Day

By Rachel E. Greenspan

This Year's Thanksgiving Forecast? Record Colds, Gusty Winds

Temperatures in the Northeast will make for the coldest Thanksgiving since 1996

By Brian K. Sullivan / Bloomberg

The Real Reason Why Thanksgiving Is Always on a Thursday

Thanksgiving holidays used to happen throughout the year, but Americans showed a preference early on for one particular day of the week

By Olivia B. Waxman

Avoiding "Little Drummer Boy" Is the Latest Viral Challenge

Puh-rum-pum-pum-pum

By Raisa Bruner

How I Celebrate Thanksgiving as a Native American

With something we truly share (and would prefer to talk about anyway)

By Sean Sherman

Here's How to Hack Netflix to Find All the Holiday Movies

'Tis the season!

By Raisa Bruner

Tinier Turkeys Are Trending for This Thanksgiving 2018

Thanks, millennials!

By Raisa Bruner

African-American Veterans Hoped Their Service in World War I Would Secure Their Rights at Home. It Didn't

Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Nevertheless, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom

By Chad Williams

The Best 2018 Halloween Pranks

From "Doll in the Hall" to Jimmy Kimmel's latest prank

By Raisa Bruner

The Real Reason People Carve Jack-O'-Lanterns for Halloween

The etymology of "jack-o'-lantern" is almost unrelated to its modern meaning and tradition

By Rachel E. Greenspan

Columbus Believed He Would Find ‘Blemmyes’ and ‘Sciapods’ — Not People — in the New World

Why, one might ask, had he expected to find monsters?

By Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California / The Conversation

The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America'

Leif Erikson Day's history is connected to nativist backlash against immigration to the United States

By Olivia B. Waxman

Lindsay Lohan Is Here to Wish Us a Happy Mean Girls Day

We all know what day it is

By Raisa Bruner

Seven-Year-Old Boy Invents Wolf Holiday and People Are Already Onboard

Move over Thanksgiving, we're celebrating Wolfenoot this year

By Melissa Locker

The Fourth of July Is America's Birthday, But Constitution Day Marks Its Coming of Age

Eighteen of the Constitution's signers were trained in law; the remainder were merchants, plantation owners and financiers

By Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese

The Meaning Behind 5 of the Most Popular Rosh Hashanah Traditions

Here's what you need to know

By Cady Lang
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