A magazine "editress" tried for decades to persuade the president to declare "a day for our national rejoicing." Lincoln ...

The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags did indeed share a harvest celebration together at Plymouth in fall 1621, but that moment got ...

Democracy was facing its toughest test 159 years ago and Abraham Lincoln's fine speech at Gettysburg was a turning point that ...

Charity at home and overseas is America's Thanksgiving story. President Abraham Lincoln believed the day should be spent ...

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.

The Washington brothers have teamed up for The Piano Lesson- a film adaptation of an August Wilson classic which holds a very ...

The day after Thanksgiving is one of 12 legal holidays in West Virginia and is meant to honor one of the most impactful ...

Thanksgiving is more than just turkey and pumpkin pie. It's a time to heal our nation's wounds and unite. Abraham Lincoln ...

In 1863, Hale put her stance on Thanksgiving into an editorial and wrote to President Abraham Lincoln, urging him to make ...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Tuesday that Hollywood figures who call Americans ignorant for voting for President-elect ...

Thanksgiving, observed this year on Thursday, November 28th, 2024, became a federal holiday with a proclamation by President ...

The farmer raising the turkeys for a presidential pardon talked to TIME about why they like bugle music and how he gets them ...