This Week In American History

May 1 1926 Ford Motor Company became one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, 40-hour workweek for workers in its automotive

April 24 1800 President John Adams approved legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress,” thus establishing

Easter, also called Pascha or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the

April 17 1790 American statesman, printer, scientist and write Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia at age 84. Born in Boston in 1706, Franklin became a printing