Abraham Lincoln served as Commander in Chief during the nation’s darkest hour, guiding the Union through the Civil War with resolve and moral clarity. Facing military setbacks, political division, and ...

Abraham Lincoln officially recognized Thanksgiving during a time of national pain that mirrors modern-day life in Chicago.

The shrine’s annual re-enactment of the Gettysburg address, delivered by Lincoln at a cemetery dedication in Gettysburg, ...

I do invite my fellow-citizens to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving, ...

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the ...

Ohioans will sit down to a table of turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie Thursday, but traditional Thanksgiving foods are ...

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

… [S]outhern Indians too were divided in their feelings toward the Confederacy…. By the winter of 1861–62, a full-blown civil war was under way among the Indians, adding a further dimension to ...

An opportunity for families and friends and, by extension, communities, states, and the country itself to have a national ...

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

The idea for a national Thanksgiving holiday was not Lincoln’s own. It came from Sarah Josepha Hale, among the most ...

With a national day of “Thanksgiving,” Lincoln created a kind of secular sabbath, a day for the country to find gratitude and ...