What is Presidents Day and how is it celebrated? What to know about the federal holiday

Many will have a day off on monday in honor of presidents day. consumers may take advantage of retail sales that proliferate on the federal holiday, but here's what to know about the history of it..

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Presidents Day is fast approaching, which may signal to many a relaxing three-day weekend and plenty of holiday sales and bargains .

But next to Independence Day, there may not exist another American holiday that is quite so patriotic.

While Presidents Day has come to be a commemoration of all the nation's 46 chief executives, both past and present, it wasn't always so broad . When it first came into existence – long before it was even federally recognized – the holiday was meant to celebrate just one man: George Washington.

How has the day grown from a simple celebration of the birthday of the first president of the United States? And why are we seeing all these ads for car and furniture sales on TV?

Here's what to know about Presidents Day and how it came to be:

When is Presidents Day 2024?

This year, Presidents Day is on Monday, Feb. 19.

The holiday is celebrated on the third Monday of every February because of a bill signed into law in 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Taking effect three years later, the Uniform Holiday Bill mandated that three holidays – Memorial Day, Presidents Day and Veterans Day – occur on Mondays to prevent midweek shutdowns and add long weekends to the federal calendar, according to Britannica .

Other holidays, including Labor Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day , were also established to be celebrated on Mondays when they were first observed.

However, Veterans Day was returned to Nov. 11 in 1978 and continues to be commemorated on that day.

What does Presidents Day commemorate?

Presidents Day was initially established in 1879 to celebrate the birthday of the nation's first president, George Washington. In fact, the holiday was simply called Washington's Birthday, which is still how the federal government refers to it, the Department of State explains .

Following the death of the venerated American Revolution leader in 1799, Feb. 22, widely believed to be Washington's date of birth , became a perennial day of remembrance, according to History.com .

The day remained an unofficial observance for much of the 1800s until Sen. Stephen Wallace Dorsey of Arkansas proposed that it become a federal holiday. In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed it into law, according to History.com.

While initially being recognized only in Washington D.C., Washington's Birthday became a nationwide holiday in 1885. The first to celebrate the life of an individual American, Washington's Birthday was at the time one of only five federally-recognized holidays – the others being Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July.

However, most Americans today likely don't view the federal holiday as a commemoration of just one specific president. Presidents Day has since come to represent a day to recognize and celebrate all of the United States' commanders-in-chief, according to the U.S. Department of State .

When the Uniform Holiday Bill took effect in 1971, a provision was included to combine the celebration of Washington’s birthday with Abraham Lincoln's on Feb. 12, according to History.com. Because the new annual date always fell between Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, Americans believed the day was intended to honor both presidents.

Interestingly, advertisers may have played a part in the shift to "Presidents Day."

Many businesses jumped at the opportunity to use the three-day weekend as a means to draw customers with Presidents Day sales and bargain at stores across the country, according to History.com.

How is the holiday celebrated?

Because Presidents Day is a federal holiday , most federal workers will have the day off .

Part of the reason Johnson made the day a uniform holiday was so Americans had a long weekend "to travel farther and see more of this beautiful land of ours," he wrote. As such, places like the Washington Monument in D.C. and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota – which bears the likenesses of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt – are bound to attract plenty of tourists.

Similar to Independence Day, the holiday is also viewed as a patriotic celebration . As opposed to July, February might not be the best time for backyard barbecues and fireworks, but reenactments, parades and other ceremonies are sure to take place in cities across the U.S.

Presidential places abound across the U.S.

Opinions on current and recent presidents may leave Americans divided, but we apparently love our leaders of old enough to name a lot of places after them.

In 2023, the U.S. Census Bureau pulled information from its databases showcasing presidential geographic facts about the nation's cities and states.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the census data shows that as of 2020 , the U.S. is home to plenty of cities, counties and towns bearing presidential names. Specifically:

  • 94 places are named "Washington."
  • 72 places are named "Lincoln."
  • 67 places are named for Andrew Jackson, a controversial figure who owned slaves and forced thousands of Native Americans to march along the infamous Trail of Tears.

Contributing: Clare Mulroy

Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at [email protected]

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Southwest Middle School students earn special recognition at Future City finals in Washington, D.C.

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Southwest Middle School's Future City team poses for a group picture during the Future City Competition, held Feb. 16-19 in Washington, D.C.

More than two dozen students from Lawrence’s Southwest Middle School received special recognition at the recent Future City Competition international finals in Washington, D.C.

The group, representing the Great Plains Future City Kansas-KC Metro Region, brought home the “Outstanding Future City Plan Award,” which recognized the team’s intensive planning and project management efforts. Last weekend’s award, presented by the Educational Foundation Project Management Institute, was one of more than 20 special recognition awards given out.

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The Southwest Middle School project that was presented at the recent Future City Competition, held Feb. 16-19 in Washington, D.C.

For the competition, SWMS students researched innovative technologies, then projected them 100 years into the future, using Karachi, Pakistan, a metropolis with over 15 million people, as their blueprint. The competition began with the question “How can we make the world a better place?” The students were then tasked with researching, designing and building cities of the future that showcase their solution to a citywide sustainability issue. The competition included multiple components: a 1,500-word essay; a scale model (or multiple model segments) built from recycled materials; a phased project plan; a presentation video; and a Q&A session with judges.

The event was focused on ways that “clean, green, and renewable energy sources could power the electrical grid,” as well as how those “sources generate enough electricity for industry, transportation, agriculture, residential, and commercial uses,” according to a news release about the contest.

SWMS teacher Danielle Lotton-Barker guided the students through months of preparation, which included a first-place finish at last month’s Future City Competition regional finals. Lotton-Barker said that the group devised a corporate team structure for the project — with a number of project managers working under the principal architect/engineer.

Lotton-Barker said that her students were the only team that used a Gantt chart, which is a tool that helps manage deadline-driven tasks. The Gantt chart typically displays a timeline of completed work and outlines relevant tasks.

“It’s a tool that project managers use, and so that’s another reason that our kids did well,” Lotton-Barker said.

Logan Harned, one of the team’s three presenters at the competition, has a unique connection to the Gantt chart, which was popularized by Henry Gantt in the early 20th century.

“His grandpa worked for the company where the Gantt chart was invented, so it was kind of cool that we won that award,” Lotton-Barker said. “And his grandpa was at the competition watching.”

Lotton-Barker said the group had to raise funds to make the trip, and they set a goal of $15,000.

“The first thing is that we wanted to be able to cover any kids that couldn’t go because of financial needs,” she said.

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Members of Southwest Middle School’s Future City team take a tour of the United States Capitol during their recent trip to Washington, D.C., for the Future City Competition. Here they pose with a statue of aviator Amelia Earhart, center.

The six-day trip included ample sightseeing in the nation’s capital, as the group toured the Capitol, took a nighttime walk to the Washington Monument and visited several museums. Lotton-Barker said the group received a “special tour” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, thanks to a connection that one of the parents had with the museum’s director.

“So she was able to get us in an hour early for a guided tour,” Lotton-Barker said, “which was amazing.”

SWMS eighth grader Max Bolick, a member of the team, said that the visit to that museum was a highlight of the trip.

“It was just really special,” he said. “The architecture was amazing and there was some beautiful art. And if I’m being completely honest, I think that it inspired me to become an architect.”

Bolick described the competition itself as an immersive experience in which the SWMS Future City team was able to “meet people … from all over the world.” And the project itself presented unique challenges, Bolick said.

“There were a lot of us in the group, and so we did have some differing opinions,” Bolick said. “Our deadlines (for the various tasks) were a big challenge. But you really learn to work with people — and, with teamwork, make something that you can be proud of, while learning how to resolve disagreements.”

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Southwest Middle School students make adjustments to their project during the Future City Competition, held Feb. 16-19 in Washington, D.C.

As far as projecting Karachi 100 years into the future, Bolick said the team modeled its project “after the traditional architectural and cultural style that’s there now,” and the group aimed “to preserve people’s way of life there.”

Having worked on the project since August, Bolick said that he gained a lot of insight into the engineering-design process.

“You learn about cool building techniques,” Bolick said, “and futuristic technologies (relating) to how we can save the world from things like climate change.”

The SWMS students representing the region at the national competition were Max Bolick, Chloe Carnagey, Penny Coleman, Aila Glendening, Ainslee Graham, Logan Harned, Ryan Hethcoat, Celeste Jenkins, Juliet Johnson, Hailey Kim, Isaac Perrins, Nina Wilson, Caroline Davis, Winry Eymard, Ruby Fritzel, Aiden Gonzalez, Tola Jankowski, Savannah Lynch, Kate Neilson, Henry Roberts, Cooper Salmans, Allen Shao, Laurel Stancil, Nate Willems and Ruth Yang.

The trip to the finals was the ninth for the school.

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Southwest Middle School students and chaperones do some nighttime sightseeing during their recent six-day trip to Washington, D.C.

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