Read President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation upon declaring a national day of Thanksgiving
At the urging of magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale, President Abraham Lincoln declared an annual national holiday of ...
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving: A gesture of unity in a fractured time (Editorial Board Opinion)
A magazine "editress" tried for decades to persuade the president to declare "a day for our national rejoicing." Lincoln ...
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Plymouth Myths: How Abraham Lincoln reinvented Thanksgiving amid the bloodshed of Civil War
The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags did indeed share a harvest celebration together at Plymouth in fall 1621, but that moment got ...
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Giving thanks for the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's spectacular words
Democracy was facing its toughest test 159 years ago and Abraham Lincoln's fine speech at Gettysburg was a turning point that ...
President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving ” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging.
Thanksgiving is about food, football and parades. But the holiday is also about helping
Charity at home and overseas is America's Thanksgiving story. President Abraham Lincoln believed the day should be spent ...
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The woman who pushed to make Thanksgiving a national holiday
When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, he was thinking about the Civil War. And so was the woman who had lobbied for Thanksgiving for years.
Lincoln gave us Thanksgiving as a time to unite. We owe it to him to try
Thanksgiving is more than just turkey and pumpkin pie. It's a time to heal our nation's wounds and unite. Abraham Lincoln ...