Pressure from businesses and stores convinced FDR to try making Thanksgiving a week earlier than usual during the Great Depression. However, the change caused so much confusion and even anger that Congress passed a law declaring Thanksgiving would always be the fourth Thursday in November.
Profile of awe-inspiring early football legend Bronko Nagurski. Bronko shines at UMinn, leads the Bears to two championships, and is a charter member of the Hall of Fame.
Long before there were furnaces or oil burners, colonial kids climbed under the covers and felt with frigid toes for the cloth-wrapped fireplace brick.