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Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Cake Deserves a Comeback
Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Cake Is a Vanilla Almond Delight. Thomas Jefferson may get credit for popularizing ice cream in ...
Abraham Lincoln’s role in Thanksgiving as a national holiday
Thanks to the many years Abraham Lincoln spent in the state, Illinois is known as the Land of Lincoln. But besides leading ...
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.
Chicago area cemetery needs help to honor graves of fallen veterans
Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery aims to honor the graves of thousands of veterans in the Chicago area this holiday season with wreaths but organizers are asking for help from the public.