A bronze statue of President George Washington stands on the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse. It is a copy of a marble statue by French artist Jean-Antoine depicting Washington resigning as ...

On Thursday, November 26, 1789, the newly formed United States of America celebrated the nation’s first Thanksgiving. About two months earlier, on September 25, 1789, New Jersey Rep. Elias Boudinot ...

The first President of the United States, George Washington, designated this date as a “Day of National Thanksgiving”. The next president to issue a Thanksgiving proclamation was the 16th President of ...

Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in the same way we do today. During the American Revolution, colonial ...

The First Amendment and the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation both occurred in the autumn of 1789. George Washington issued a proclamation for a "day of public thanksgiving and prayer" just ...

Last year, I had the pleasure of teaching a graduate seminar at Southern Methodist University that I called "Presidential Rhetoric and American Political Theology." We spent the semester reading texts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Washington statue, New York City. (Photo by Getty Images) On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early.

President George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation under the new U.S. Constitution on Oct. 3, 1789, asking for Thursday, Nov. 26 of that year to be "a day of public thanksgiving ...

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both ...