Happy Columbus Day 2025

Columbus Day commemorates the landing of Italian-born navigator Christopher Columbus in the New World—i.e., the Americas—on October 12, 1492. It is a federal holiday in the United States, observed on…

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Then and Now: The Art of Mockery and Fear

The “Great Republican Reform Party” was not an official political party in 1856, but rather a satirical term used in political cartoons to mock the new Republican Party and its presidential candidate, John C. Frémont. The name was meant to highlight and deride the broad, eclectic, and progressive coalition of groups that supported the Republicans in the 1856 election.

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