To appreciate Labor Day, one needs to know the history preceding it.
At the time the United States was founded, most people were self-employed, working as either farmers or in trades, such as:
baker,
butcher,
carpenter,
cabinetmaker,
upholsterer,
tailor,
milliner...
World War Two combat in the Pacific began when military forces of Imperial Japan invaded China, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines.
The fighting that followed included...
More than a dozen publishers and authors have filed a complaint against the state of Florida, alleging that the state's ban on sexually explicit books in classrooms violates the 1st and 14th Amendments.
"It was enough to melt a heart of stone," remarked John Adams after the First Prayer in Congress.
The First Session of the First Continental Congress opened in September of 1774 with a...