Juneteenth has long been recognized and celebrated, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. But it didn't become a ...

America's Second Independence Day is coming soon. So, what is Juneteenth? And why is it celebrated? Here's what to know.

Juneteenth recognizes one of the most important moments in U.S. history commemorating the end of slave. Here's when and why ...

Juneteenth has long been recognized and celebrated, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. But it didn't become a ...

America's Second Independence Day is coming soon. So, what is Juneteenth? And why is it celebrated? Here's what to know.

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 ...

President Abraham Lincoln believed Thanksgiving should be a day of praying for peace and caring for war victims. Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation of October 1863 during the Civil War sought to ...

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 ...

He can also be considered first in Thanksgiving Day. For years historians have given credit to President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation on Oct. 3, 1863, when he called for a national day of ...

Abraham Lincoln urged his fellow Americans to gather and give thanks during one of the most difficult times of our nation’s history. After establishing Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1864 ...

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.

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 ...