Sarah Hale, credited for getting Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, shows how one person can make a ...

During these difficult times, I know that you join with me and thousands of Israelis in thanking God, for the abundant blessings he has sent our way ...

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.

Popular explanations reference the color of ink used to record store profits, slave auctions and a general feeling of doom ...

This week, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving again. We have done so annually on the last Thursday in November since 1863.

One family’s story of leaving Ireland for the United States in the troubled 1840s shows the importance of immigrants in today ...

While Congress and the White House will reflect the trifecta of Republican victories, New York’s government is controlled by Democrats from the governor’s office to both houses of the legislature ...

They were born less than a year and about 100 miles apart, and they departed for their inaugurations on the same day, Feb. 11, 1861. Their differences, of course, dwarf the similarities. Abraham ...

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

On Nov. 26, 2014, President Barack Obama pardoned two turkeys, Virgil and Homer, from Cooper Farms in Fort Recovery, Ohio. The near-50-pound turkeys were spared from a Thanksgiving Day feast and sent ...