This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Sarah Hale, the 34-year-old widow who advocated for a permanent holiday, and for President Lincoln, who said yes.
Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) and Jason Crow (D-Col.) publicly calling on service members to ignore orders they determine for ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The short, handwritten note is a typical letter of reference for a man seeking a job. But the author is the president of the United States. It is also 1861, and the job seeker ...
Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in ...
From George Washington’s 1789 proclamation calling for a national day of “public thanksgiving and prayer” to Abraham ...
With a national day of “Thanksgiving,” Lincoln created a kind of secular sabbath, a day for the country to find gratitude and ...
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The John Wick precursor Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Chris Pratt, and more, is about to ...
The idea for a national Thanksgiving holiday was not Lincoln’s own. It came from Sarah Josepha Hale, among the most ...
Confederate myths are confronted as John Dunphy pushes back with facts ...
Among my growing list of improper uses of the English language is the response I get when telling a restaurant server or ...
Warren Harding provides a case for how lies and myths—in the name of the truth—can be centralized and become the dominant ...