The card read, “I don’t have much, but I wanted you to have this.” I didn’t cash it back then for obvious reasons. Digging ...

How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

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Jimmy Harrop grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons, sprawled on his stomach and doodling away. While he never received ...