Thanksgiving is more than just turkey and pumpkin pie. It's a time to heal our nation's wounds and unite. Abraham Lincoln created the holiday for just that purpose. Now it's our turn.

President Abraham Lincoln first proclaimed Thanksgiving a formal holiday FDR and Congress set it on the fourth Thursday of November Presidents routinely issue Thanksgiving proclamations Sure, the ...

Amidst a raging Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued a “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on October 3, 1863, 74 years to the day after President George Washington issued his first ...

Amid a potentially nation-annihilating war that threatened to tear America to shreds, President Abraham Lincoln faced a truly excruciating catastrophe. And while he could have buckled under the ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s powerful Thanksgiving proclamation, issued amid the carnage of the Civil War, gave the holiday its statement of purpose. It is "to set apart and observe the last ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation October 3, 1863. Abraham Lincoln. By Abraham Lincoln | Nov. 24, 2022, 1:00 p.m. The human tradition of thanksgiving runs back to ancient times as a ...

On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving. He saw the occasion as a peaceful interlude amid the Civil War.

Thanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point. On October 3, 1863, the White House issued the Thanksgiving Procla… ...

The human tradition of thanksgiving runs back to ancient times as a celebration of bountiful harvests and the need to be respectful to whatever gods ... is credited to President Abraham Lincoln.

The Year Abraham Lincoln Declared Thanksgiving In the tumult of a bloody civil war and a month before the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln asked his country to give thanks. By Lee Cooper.

Hale is credited with persuading Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. (Library of Congress) Library of Congress Washington, D.C. Oct. 3, 1863 ...

Today The Salt Lake Tribune's editorial board shares President Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation.“His call upon the Almighty Hand was not to win the war, but to restore the nation to ...