Gettysburg National Cemetery Memorial Day or Decoration Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. The holiday is currently observed every year on the last Monday of May. Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on Memorial Day, particularly to honor […]

Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (ca. 1955) Mrs. Rosa Parks altered the negro progress in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955, by the bus boycott she began. National Archives record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93). Source: Ebony Magazine Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in […]

Williamstown Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart Washington's Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States, who was born on February 22, 1732. Since the Uniform Federal Holidays Act of 1971, its observance can occur between […]