Society pages in historical newspapers were the equivalent of today’s social media. They reported on social events, family news, birthday parties, anniversaries, and more! Don’t
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Did you know that “do-it-yourself” home-improvement projects boomed in 1950s America? While home maintenance and repair were far from new concepts, the ’50s saw them
Have you ever wondered why so many couples get married in June? Historically, it hearkens back to a superstition that since June is named in
Newspapers have been a hub for sharing recipes for well over a century. Today, if we find a recipe we love, we might share it
Family bibles are a treasure for genealogists and often recorded important events like births, deaths, and marriages. Family bibles were especially popular in the 1700s
The 1950 U.S. Census records have been released. Several states are already indexed and searchable on Ancestry®. Others will become available in the coming weeks
Popularized in the 1930s, brunch had become a weekend “national habit” for many American families by the 1950s. With the post-war economic boom in full
On April 1, 1950, some 150,000 census workers, armed with pencils and thick pads of census schedules, set out to visit every residence in the
On a January day in 1942, a young Black man penned a letter to the editor at the Pittsburgh Courier asking a poignant question, “Should
26 Dec 1925, Sat The Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, Illinois) Newspapers.com We love vintage newspaper recipes, but admittedly some of them can be hard to follow