On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving. He saw the occasion as a peaceful interlude amid the Civil War.

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 ...

The Washington Examiner has made it a tradition to publish President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation of Oct. 3, 1863, each Thanksgiving Day. Lincoln invited "fellow citizens in every part of the ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Thanksgiving occurred exactly 74 years after George Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789. The key difference: While Washington proclaimed a day of ...

Yes, we were right in the middle of the Civil War, yet President Abraham Lincoln called for a nation-wide Day of Thanksgiving. Front page of the New York Times on October 4, 1863.

Abraham Lincoln, in a stirring call to spiritual unity amid the carnage of the Civil War, issued his emotionally powerful Thanksgiving proclamation on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1863.

President Abraham Lincoln’s powerful Thanksgiving proclamation, issued amid the carnage of the Civil War, gave the holiday its statement of purpose. It is "to set apart and observe the last ...

The proclamation in 1863 called for a national day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” Lincoln’s words emphasized gratitude, reflection, and ...

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To the… ...

In that spirit, we again reproduce President Lincoln’s Oct. 3, 1863, proclamation establishing Thanksgiving Day.

In that spirit, we again reproduce President Lincoln’s original Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day, dated Oct. 3, 1863.