The U.S. has recognized Thanksgiving since 1789, when President George Washington issued the first proclamation designating the first national day of thanksgiving. It fell on Thursday, November 26 ...

Hale campaigned for a national day of Thanksgiving for ... His October 3rd, 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation read, "In the midst of a civil war of unequal magnitude and severity, peace has been ...

President Abraham Lincoln declared a national Thanksgiving holiday ... Lincoln wasn't the first president to issue a ...

On October 3, 1789, George Washington issued his Thanksgiving proclamation ... Abraham Lincoln would later declare Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863. Minnesota usually raises the most ...