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Black Americans Used to Have to Navigate Jim Crow Laws During Road Trips with this Travel Guide
During the era of the “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites in what was known as Jim Crow, a black middle-class emerged. Like others, ownership of an automobile became both…
American History
George Washington’s Caribbean Cruise and 10 Other Tales from the Evolution of the American Vacation
The idea of taking time off from toil to spend it on leisure activities was anathema for much of America’s…
American History
10 Peculiar and Popular Vacation Hot Spots of the 19th Century
There is no doubt that the American ritual of the summer vacation became de rigeur with the expansion of the…