But Thanksgiving Day did not become an annually observed national celebration until 1863, when Abraham Lincoln issued his own proclamation. Like its predecessors, this too was written in the ...

Thanksgiving in Alabama: 'Yankee' holiday didn't catch on until after Civil War After the war, Alabama had Thanksgiving on Dec. 7, 1865, and Nov. 29, 1866; Previously the South thought of it as a ...

Just as the new holiday of remembrance and gratitude helped to reunite the country after the Civil War, Thanksgiving can also work to redress our rifts today—in our polarized nation and even in ...

Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation of October 1863 during the Civil War sought to unite the country and build peace. The writer Sarah Josepha Hale had written Lincoln encouraging him to make ...

Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation of October, 1863 during the Civil War sought to unite the country and build peace.

Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation of October 1863 during the Civil War sought to unite the country and build peace. The writer Sarah Josepha Hale had written Lincoln encouraging him to make ...

Charity at home and overseas is America's Thanksgiving story. President Abraham Lincoln believed the day should be spent praying for peace and caring for war victims.

150 years ago Kentucky was roiled by violence and strife as it celebrated the holiday in the wake of the Civil War ...

Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation of October 1863 during the Civil War sought to unite the country and build peace. The writer Sarah Josepha Hale had written Lincoln encouraging him to make ...

Until the middle of the U.S. Civil War, Thanksgiving was a regional celebration in the Northeast. Then, in 1863, Lincoln signed the executive action to establish a “national day of Thanksgiving ...

Until the middle of the U.S. Civil War, Thanksgiving was a regional celebration in the Northeast. Then, in 1863, Lincoln signed the executive action to establish a “national day of Thanksgiving ...

Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation of October 1863 during the Civil War sought to unite the country and build peace.