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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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Editorial: Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation offers words of encouragement
Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.
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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 ...
Charity at home and overseas is America's Thanksgiving story | Opinion
While today's Thanksgiving is known for parades, football, and shopping, the original intent was far different.
Biden delivers final Thanksgiving message; Trump says next year will be better
President Joe Biden expressed his "gratitude to the American people" and called the United states the "greatest country on ...
Trump wishes a happy Thanksgiving ‘to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics’
Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country,” the ...