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 ...

President Abraham Lincoln decreed that he would "set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving," the randomness of which, in fairness, does sound a bit like ...

In early October 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation ... observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth ...

President Abraham Lincoln declared an annual national holiday of Thanksgiving in 1863. Most remarkably, Lincoln made his proclamation at the height of the bloodiest war in American history.

The history of White House Thanksgiving ... 160 years to President Abraham Lincoln, who established the national holiday. During his time in office, Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for ...

Editor's note: In an effort to further promote unity in the United States, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation in 1863 calling for a singular day to mark Thanksgiving. At the time ...

that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National Thanksgiving day to be held the final Thursday in November. In 1941, it became a federal holiday. Here is Lincoln's proclamation: "The year ...

The 19th century poet Sarah Josepha Hale might only be known for writing the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” had she not been so determined to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.

SOUTH BEND — Studebaker National Museum presents “Lincoln and Thanksgiving: The History Behind the Holiday” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9 at 201 Chapin St. Presented by Abraham Lincoln ...

as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular ...