by david allan van nostrand | Dec 25, 2023 | Americana, Human Behavior, Items in the News
The Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving was formed in 1912 as a protest against the exploitation of working women by their bosses. Manhattan, NY department store clerks (almost exclusively women) were all pressured into giving extravagant gifts to their male...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 18, 2023 | Americana, Anthropology, The Wayback Machine
Who Were the Hell’s Angels? Seven million soldiers, sailors, and flyboys stationed overseas came home from World War II in the late 1940s. Re-integrating into the society they had left years ago to fight wars against Japan and Germany was difficult. They had...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 11, 2023 | Americana, Human Behavior, The world around us
What Are Retirement Communities Like? Once people get near retirement age, many think about moving to a place that not only fits their current needs but their future ones, too. Some move to be near the kids and grandkids. Others no longer need a big house and choose...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 4, 2023 | Human Behavior, The world around us, What does it all mean?
Who Is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross? Americans don’t like talking about dying because it conjures up so many bad images. So they say things like Aunt Dorothy passed, Mrs Witowsky has gone to meet her maker, and Uncle Willie was called to glory. Type <euphemisms for...
