Women’s History Month

   (Official program, Women's Suffrage Procession, March 13th, 1913, Washington D.C.) In 1981, Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7,1982 as “Women’s History Week.”  In the following years, efforts would be made to reinstate Women's History Week each year until 1987, after being petitioned by the…
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Who was Saint Tammany?

On the 22nd of December 1811, Governor William Claiborne declared by proclamation the formation of four new Louisiana parishes in the county of Feliciana in the former territory of the short-lived West Florida Republic that had been recently annexed to the United States.  Among the new divisions established was Saint Tammany Parish.  As to why Claiborne…
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History of Black History Month

Black History Month's origins began in September of 1915 when Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard-trained historian, and minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). This organization's founding mission was dedicated to researching and promoting achievements by Black Americans and other people of African descent. Over time…
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Calendar Origins

It is near the end of January, the first month of a new year.  By now we should all have our new calendars hanging up, which will soon be marked up and down and scribbled with all our plans.  The calendar we use is something ubiquitous in our day-to-day activities.   By this we plot out…
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