Health Care Blog May 26, 2025
According to Veterans Administration historians, the origin of Memorial Day dates back to 1864 when three women from Boalsburg, Pennsylvania joined in grief to decorate the graves of family members who had died in the Civil War. A year later, other townspeople joined in and one year later, in 1866, women in Columbus, Mississippi, joined the event, in honor of fallen Confederate soldiers. That was 14 years after the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852.
In that first year it was published, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold over 300,000 copies. Author and critic Alfred Kazin called it “The most powerful and most enduring work ever written about American slavery.” Its prominence in the American lexicon speaks...
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