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The oldest magazine in the U.S., tracing its lineage back to Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette Wyeth, John Philip Falter, Charles Livingston Bull, J.C.

The Saturday Evening Post is known for having published stories and essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, Louis L'Amour, P.G. Wodehouse, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe, and many other famous writers. It is also notable for its painted covers by Norman Rockwell, N.C. Leyendecker, and John E. Sheridan.

22/07/2024

Jim Henson built an imagination empire, but what built Jim Henson?

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A powerful new film models how museums can engage our hardest histories.

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Cartoon of the Day

Cartoon by Brad Anderson
Published in our July 22, 1961, issue
See more cartoons at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/category/cartoons-humor/

22/07/2024

Today in History: The Senate Rejects FDR’s Planned Supreme Court Overhaul

In the 1930s, a majority of the Supreme Court opposed President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Four of the Justices consistently ruled against Roosevelt’s measures, and they could usually find a fifth justice to side with them. One after another, his legislative initiatives, which had passed into law, were ruled unconstitutional.

But after winning reelection by a landslide in 1936, Roosevelt decided to push back. Claiming the court had a backlog of cases, he proposed letting justices over the age of 70 retire to be replaced by younger men. If all of the septuagenarian Justices had taken this offer, he could have brought six new Justices to the Court.

But if the older Justices chose to remain on the bench, they’d be provided a younger “assistant” Justice with full voting rights. For Congress, this was a move too far. Today in 1937 the Senate rejected his plan. But just at this point, two of the Justices began showing support for Roosevelt’s agencies, and began siding with the administration on labor law and Social Security, making Roosevelt’s plan unnecessary.

“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio.

Image: The Hughes Supreme Court: Front row: Justices Brandeis and Van Devanter, Chief Justice Hughes, and Justices McReynolds and Sutherland. Back row: Justices Roberts, Butler, Stone, and Cardozo (Wikimedia Commons)

21/07/2024

It's the 40th anniversary of National Ice Cream Day! Grab yourself a sweet treat and enjoy these covers from our
"I Scream for Ice Cream" cover collection: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/collections/i-scream-for-ice-cream

20/07/2024

In honor of Apollo 11 and its crew, including Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, landing on the moon on July 20, 1969, we wanted to share some beautiful moon-themed covers from our archives. Enjoy!

19/07/2024

The Painter saw his subjects like bugs in a jar; your surface persona was the jar, and he painted what was inside it.

19/07/2024

Who gets the leftovers? What’s the right way to cut a sandwich? What do you do with a choking raccoon? These questions and more are answered in News of the Week.

In the news of the week ending July 19, 2024, are no AC, BLTs, and a raccoon’s plea.

19/07/2024

Cartoon of the Day

Cartoon by Robert Day
Published in our July 19, 1958, issue
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19/07/2024

Today in History: The First Women’s Rights Convention Is Held

America’s first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, today in 1848. The convention denounced laws that gave any man “the power to chastise and imprison his wife, to take the wages she earns, the property she inherits, and, in case of separation, her children.”

The Post editors today in 1913 declared that housework was stupid and annoying, and were surprised women could tolerate its dreary monotony. One young woman said, "I used to read a great deal; but now my only ambition is to get the dishes done and die!" The editors added, “No intelligent man would perform women’s work without running amuck and shooting up the place.”

Meanwhile, the editors wrote, more young men were discovering work outside an office could be more rewarding. Fewer workers were marching into overcrowded, overworked, underpaid, blind-alley careers beneath the banner of the white collar. They were realizing that the shop-grease that went along with good pay and prospects was preferable to spotless hands that were certain to be empty 48 hours after every payday.

“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio.

Image: An advertisement for a sweeper from the July 19, 1913, Saturday Evening Post

18/07/2024

Widow Clicquot is a brisk, lavishly filmed true story of love, war, jealousy, corporate greed, and world-class wine snobbery.

18/07/2024

Even the bulkiest body builder is mousy, in a way. Discover the link between mice and muscles in our latest In a Word.

Though we think of our muscles as a source of strength, their name comes from a smaller, weaker place.

18/07/2024

Which synonyms start with tr and ends with y? (Some of them are tricky, but it would be a tragedy not to try.)

Can you find the synonym?

18/07/2024

Today in History: FDR Nominated for a Third Term

Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a third presidential term today in 1940. It was an unprecedented move. No president had been ever nominated a third term, following a tradition begun by George Washington when he declined running for a third term in 1796.

But Roosevelt felt 1940 was different. Just two months earlier, Germany had swept through western Europe, conquering Belgium, Holland, and France. Many Americans abandoned their isolationism and faced the growing possibility of war.

Roosevelt had already challenged American industry to meet a need for 50,000 war planes. He’d sent military support to England, working around the 1939 Neutrality Act. In September he began a peacetime draft, and soon thousands of men were reporting for duty at boot camp. Yet, in his campaign, he’d declared. “I shall say it again and again. Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”

Republicans asked voters, if the president could win a third term, what would stop him from running again in 1944 and winning a fourth term? Nothing, it turned out.

“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio.

Image: FDR in 1940 (Library of Congress)

18/07/2024

Cartoon of the Day

Cartoon by Herb Green
Published in our July 18, 1959, issue
See more cartoons at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/category/cartoons-humor/

17/07/2024

Check out these cartoons that make light of construction sites!

Making light at construction sites!

17/07/2024

Race car driver and World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker had beaten the odds dozens of times. He thought he could do so again with his car company, especially his 4,400 cc, eight-cylinder automobile.

The Rickenbacker Motor Company thought it could beat the usual odds for a startup automaker.

17/07/2024

Today in History: If You Want a Divorce, Confess to a Crime

Today in 1965, a Post editorial reported that, while the state of New York still maintained adultery as a criminal act, it wasn’t enthusiastic about prosecuting offenders. Criminalizing marital infidelity was necessary because it was the only ground for divorce recognized by the state. So, the Post editors wrote, every New York couple that wanted a divorce had to confess to a crime.

At least that was the law. But every year, the state granted 6,000 divorces. Which meant 6,000 cases of adultery were brought to the courts. Yet virtually none of them were prosecuted.

Four years later, California allowed no-fault divorce, which eliminated the need to prove infidelity. The old laws governing fidelity and permanence in marriage would soon be rewritten.

Today, every state in the union allows no-fault divorces. However, most states can recognize fault, such as infidelity, abandonment, or inflicting emotional or physical pain in one of the partners. If the court agrees with the claim of fault, it can affect its decision about custody and child support.

“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio.

Image: Betty Grable and Harry James divorced in 1965 (Wikimedia Commons)

17/07/2024

Cartoon of the Day

Cartoon by Vahan Shirvanian
Published in our July 17, 1965, issue
See more cartoons at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/category/cartoons-humor/

16/07/2024

Our newest poll is now live. When a minor emergency arises, how multilingual can you be?

Asking for help at the United Nations

16/07/2024

The popularity of Semaglutide for weight loss has caused a proliferation of fake doctors selling fake Ozempic from fake online pharmacies. Buyer beware.

16/07/2024

Falconry is a passionate pursuit for the truly obsessed, and for those of us fortunate enough to witness the flights of falcons, time collapses as the birds ring up higher and higher into the sky, and we wait for them to select their prey and then fold their wings and plummet toward earth at speeds of over 200 mph.

The sport of falconry is more than a pastime — it’s a way of life.

16/07/2024

Today is National Cherry Day, which is a perfect accompaniment to "Cherry Picking," a 1911 cover illustration by E.M. Wireman. Subscribe to the Post today for more great cover art like this! https://ssl.drgnetwork.com/flex/SPO/POSTNEWSUB

16/07/2024

Today in History: The First Parking Meter Is Installed

When the first parking meters were installed today in 1935 in Oklahoma City, they were nicknamed Black Marias, after the enclosed wagons the police used to cart rowdy citizens off to jail. The original Black Maria was a powerful woman who lived in Boston in the 1850s and ran a boarding house. She was famous for breaking up fights among her guests and dragging them to jail. When the police obtained a wagon for the same purpose, they named it after the woman who’d given them so much help in the past.

J.D. Salinger’s novel “The Catcher in the Rye” was first published today in 1951. The name of its main character, Holden Caulfield, first appeared in the Post in 1944 in a story titled “Last Day of the Last Furlough.” When Sergeant Salinger ran into Ernest Hemingway in Paris during the war, he gave him a copy of the magazine. Hemingway read the story and told Salinger he had a hell of a talent. In that story, Holden Caulfield was already dead, killed in action.

“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio.

Image: An early parking meter in Long Beach, California, 1940 (Wikimedia Commons)

16/07/2024

Cartoon of the Day

Cartoon by Spencer
Published in our July 16, 1960, issue
See more cartoons at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/category/cartoons-humor/

15/07/2024

The opportunities for actors of a certain age are limited, but several have memorably made the most of them.

15/07/2024

Since we’re stuck with social media as one of the main vehicles by which most of us get our news, how can we make smart choices about what to seek out?

15/07/2024

Sure, mosquitoes pollinate many crops. But they also kill a lot of people and animals, and make lots of others sick (or at least itchy). Here’s how to keep those little buggers at bay.

15/07/2024

Today in History: Ford Sells Its First Car

The Ford Motor Company sold its first car today in 1903. The buyer was a Chicago dentist named Ernst Pfenning, and he paid $800 for his shiny, red Model A. This shouldn’t be confused with the Model A that Ford produced in 1927. Dr. Pfenning’s Model A was a two-seater without a roof. Its two-cylinder, eight-horsepower engine made it the most powerful car on the road, capable of reliably reaching speeds up to 30 miles an hour.

On this evening, the president went on television to tell the country it had come to a critical turning point in history. The nation had lost its unity of purpose, he said. The government seemed incapable of action. Every extreme position in politics was stubbornly defended. There was a growing disrespect for government, churches, schools, the news media, and other institutions. A loss of confidence in the future was threatening to destroy the social fabric of America.

The President was Jimmy Carter, and the year was 1979.

“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio.

Image: 1903 Ford Model A (Picryl)

15/07/2024

Cartoon of the Day

Cartoon by Bill Hoest
Published in our July 15, 1967, issue
See more cartoons at https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/category/cartoons-humor/

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Chinatown Turns 50

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Today in History: Lindbergh Is Celebrated with a Ticker Tape Parade

New York had never seen a parade to match the one that came through town on this day in 1927. The city was welcoming the international hero Charles Lindbergh. He was greeted at the Battery by 300,000 people. And when 10,000 soldiers and sailors accompanied him up Fifth Avenue, about four million spectators craned their neck to see the first man to fly across the Atlantic solo. The ticker tape parade was a New York invention, which originated in 1886. The occasion was the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty. As New Yorkers walked to the Battery to see the event, office workers dumped tons of paper strips bearing stock market quotes from stock ticker machines. The celebration for Lindbergh was so enthusiastic that the sky was choked with ticker tape. It fell in such volumes that few spectators could actually see Lindbergh. When it was all over, 2,000 street cleaners worked for days to clean up the 2,000 tons of paper left in the streets. “Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio. Video: Lindbergh’s ticker tape parade (us.archive.org)

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In our March/April issue, you'll find a remembrance of Erma Bombeck, hiking hut-to-hut through history, the making of a president (President Franklin Rooosevelt, that is), plus, fiction, cartoons, health tips, and more.

The Saturday Evening Post History Minute: Creating the Mass-Market Mid-Century Modern Home

After G.I.s returned from World War II, there just weren’t enough houses for them. This led to a boom in pre-fabricated homes that could be built quickly to meet the growing need.

Preview Our January/February 2024 Issue

In the January/February issue of The Saturday Evening Post, you can read the winning entry from our Great American Fiction Contest, follow Michael Shapiro on an eight-day trek from Kathmandu to the Mount Everest Base Camp, and learn about the fascinating and frustrating world of film restoration. You will also find fascinating articles about Lincoln’s faith, the Stuckey’s resurgence, and much more.

Today in History: January 1

Today in History: January 1 TV and radio broadcasters lost $20 million dollars of advertising today in 1971 when cigarette commercials were banned from the airwaves. In 1910, one reason some Americans were opposed to giving women the vote was that they didn’t fight in the country’s wars. Today’s Post of that year refuted this argument by pointing to the women who owned nearly half the shares in major corporations and voted at stockholder meetings. They didn’t gain this right to vote from their ability to bear arms, or to knock sense into a disorderly employee. They voted because they had a stake in the enterprise. Today’s Post in 1944 reassured the families of soldiers that their servicemen received good medical care. Mobile medical units, which moved along with advancing troops, were so responsive in delivering care that in North Africa and Italy, 97 of every 100 wounded American soldiers who reached field hospitals alive would survive their combat injuries. “Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio. Video: Lucky Strike commercial, 1948 (Internet Archive)

The Writer Who Created the Stoic American Cowboy

You might not have heard of Owen Wister, but through his book, The Virginian, he defined what we think of as the American cowboy.

Today in History: December 1

One of the first great successes of the motion picture industry was released today in 1903. The Great Train Robbery, a 13-minute melodrama, was shot for $150 in New Jersey and shown at nickelodeon theaters and vaudeville houses. It was a big success, thanks in part to the fact that trains were still being robbed at the time. The pace of work in America sped up today in 1913, as the great Ford assembly line was set in motion. It shortened the time needed to build a Model T from 12 hours to 93 minutes. But assembly line work quickly proved to be hard on employees. Within the first year, almost half of Ford’s line workers quit. In 1913, motorists bought gasoline in cans from blacksmiths’ shops or from sidewalk pumps in front of general stores. But today, the first dedicated, drive-in automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh, the first of 200,000 across America. On this day in 1942 wartime gas rationing went into effect. Most drivers were allowed just four gallons a week. With cars averaging 17 miles per gallon, this effectively limited their weekly travel to 68 miles. “Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio. Video: The Great Train Robbery (Library of Congress)

The Top 20 Box Office Turkeys

There’s little reason to give thanks for these all-time top 20 film flops.

Today in History: November 1

Today in History: November 1 On this day in 1879, Thomas Edison patented his light bulb, starting a process that would forever change night time in America. Some places in cities would never again see darkness. But for the next half century, most American homes would be lit by kerosene lamp or gas light. Fifteen years later on this date, Edison achieved another first when he shot the first motion picture with a national celebrity — Annie Oakley, star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. For a moment, the past and the future of show business met in passing. Today in 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to shoot their way into a Washington house where President Truman was temporarily staying. They hoped to kill the President to promote Puerto Rican independence. The men were confronted by Secret Service agents and White House police, and a shootout began on Pennsylvania Avenue that left one of the men dead and the other wounded and captured. At the time, 90 percent of Puerto Ricans wanted to keep their connection to the United States. “Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard every weekday around 7:03 AM on University of Indianapolis's WICR radio. Image: Annie Oakley (Library of Congress)

The Vanishing One-Room Schoolhouse

At one time, more than 200,000 one-room schoolhouses dotted the American landscape, but over time, almost all of them have disappeared. Did we lose something in the transition to larger and more centralized schools?

Preview the November/December2023 Issue

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Rockwell Video Minute: Family Tree

When Norman Rockwell decided to paint an extended family tree, for the patriarch he chose not a hero, but a villain.

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How Americans Vacationed in 1900

In 1900, summer in the city was HOT. There was no air conditioning, or even an electric fan. You needed to get out of town. Whether or not you took a vacation depended on where you lived, what you did for a living, and how wealthy you were.

Mead Schaeffer’s Pirates, Paratroopers, and Portraits of America

Norman Rockwell’s friend and neighbor painted the men of World War II as well as scenes from across post-war America.

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