Publication Date

February 20, 2012

Perspectives Section

Perspectives Daily

Last year on Presidents’ Day we explored the holiday’s beginnings: starting in 1880 as a celebration of George Washington’s Birthday, modified in 1971 to fall on a Monday in accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, and finally broadened in the 1980s from Washington’s Birthday to Presidents’ Day (learn more in the National Archives Prologue magazine article, “By George, IT IS Washington’s Birthday!”).

This Presidents’ Day, we look back at past president-related posts featured here on AHA Today.

This post first appeared on AHA Today.

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