Photo: close-up of Rev. Peter P. Cooney. Credit: Notre Dame Special Collection.

Easter Celebration: Remembering Father Cooney

By Melissa Berry on April 18, 2025

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Father Cooney celebrating Easter Mass on a Civil War battlefield during the Atlanta Campaign in 1864... (Read More)

Photo: Happy Easter. Credit: https://depositphotos.com/home.html

Easter & Our Ancestors Through the Years (part 3)

By Katie Rebecca Merkley on April 17, 2025

Katie Rebecca Merkley continues her series exploring mentions of Easter in the newspaper, examining the period during the Civil War, 1861-1865... (Read More)

Photo: “Puck” magazine, 26 March 1902. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Happy Days: Our Ancestors Celebrating Spring and Easter (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on April 16, 2025

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about some of the many ways our ancestors celebrated springtime and Easter... (Read More)

Easter & Our Ancestors Through the Years (part 2)

By Katie Rebecca Merkley on April 15, 2025

Katie Rebecca Merkley continues her series exploring our ancestors and appearances of Easter in the newspaper, examining the period 1775-1783... (Read More)

Easter & Our Ancestors Through the Years (part 1)

By Katie Rebecca Merkley on April 14, 2025

Katie Rebecca Merkley begins her series exploring our ancestors and appearances of Easter in the newspaper, examining the period 1690-1774... (Read More)

Photo: "Puck" magazine, 5 April 1899. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Happy Days: Our Ancestors Celebrating Spring and Easter (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on April 11, 2025

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about some of the many ways our ancestors celebrated springtime and Easter... (Read More)

Photo: American contralto Marian Anderson performing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in front of 75,000 spectators on 9 April 1939, Easter Sunday. Finnish accompanist Kosti Vehanen is on the piano. Credit: U.S. Information Agency; Wikimedia Commons.

Marian Anderson Sings Her Way into History, Easter 1939

By Jane Cook on March 28, 2024

Jane Cook writes about an Easter concert in 1939 when Black contralto Marian Anderson sang to an integrated audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial... (Read More)

Photo: chocolate bunny. Credit: Gena Philibert-Ortega.

The History of the Chocolate Easter Bunny

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on April 14, 2022

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about a subject near and dear to a lot of hearts around Easter time: the chocolate bunny... (Read More)

Easter Fun from Yesteryear: American Legion & Other Egg Hunts, Part II

By Melissa Berry on April 12, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry concludes her story about some of the fun Easter egg hunts children had nearly a century ago... (Read More)

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