May 15, 2025
Tag: On the Line
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On the Line: The Canada-U.S. Boundary in Postcards
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For many Americans and Canadians alike, the border between our two nations is our first international border-crossing experience. I remember my first crossing; all I had to do was tell the agent where I was born. It’s more complicated today, but here is a postcard account of what it was like years ago.
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December 31, 2023 6 Comments
Today is New Year’s Eve, it is also the Fifth Sunday of December. At Postcard History you get three articles for the price of one on Fifth Sundays! Ventriloquism, domestic service in the 1930s, and ice palaces are topics worlds-apart, but that is exactly what makes Fifth Sunday special.