I do invite my fellow-citizens to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving, ...

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

With a national day of “Thanksgiving,” Lincoln created a kind of secular sabbath, a day for the country to find gratitude and ...

The history of White House Thanksgiving traditions date back more than 160 years to President Abraham Lincoln, who ...

At the height of the Civil War, Lincoln issued a proclamation to urge Americans to celebrate their blessings. Thanksgiving has been a tradition since.

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in commemoration of ...

Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in ...

From George Washington’s 1789 proclamation calling for a national day of “public thanksgiving and prayer” to Abraham ...

Two Thanksgivings? Family members in another state off on a different day? While there have been Thanksgiving celebrations in the United States before there was even a United States, the holiday's ...

Every year on the fourth Thursday in November people across the U.S. celebrate Thanksgiving? But why on Thursday?