Presidents’ Day: 5 Facts About This Holiday—and Why It’s a Three-Day Weekend

The busts of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln tower over the Black Hills at Mount Rushmore National Monument near Keystone, S.D., on July 2, 2020. Scott Olson/Getty Images

For many, particularly federal workers, today means a day off because it’s Presidents’ Day.

Plans are in place for a long weekend of travel, binge-watching TV, maybe sleeping in today, and for those in New Orleans, sleeping off the fun from the first weekend of Carnival parades.