Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the Declaration of Independence and what inspired the Founders to ...

“This bill will leave America a far crueler and weaker place,” said Robert Weissman, co-president of the nonprofit Public ...

The names of people who were enslaved on George’s Washington’s Mount Vernon estate are inscribed on the walls of what was their home: Tom Nokes. Vina. Barbara. Their names are grouped together by ...

His production dipped this past season (10.6 ppg, 5.5 rpg) in part due to a midseason ankle injury and in part because George Washington had more weapons, improving from 15-17 overall and 4-14 in ...

Before Thanksgiving became the prominent late November holiday, much of America celebrated "Evacuation Day" – commemorating the day the last Redcoats fled New York in 1783.

Our first president used the holiday to unite a divided nation. So can we. Washington’s Thanksgiving and Ours On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved ...

George Washington, our first president, issued the first official Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, but the national holiday didn’t begin until 1863, two years into the Civil War, when it was ...

The Founding Fathers had a lot to say about Thanksgiving. George Washington issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789. His successor, John Adams, recommended a day of fasting, humility and prayer.

Americans have been giving thanks with feasting dating back to 1541, according to the National Park Service, but President George Washington didn’t declare Nov. 26 a national day of thanks until ...

Thanksgiving for what? Henry David Thoreau in 1856, George Washington in 1797 and Mark Twain in 1907 (photo: Benjamin D. Maxham / Gilbert Stuart / A.F. Bradley / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) ...

The Founding Fathers had a lot to say about Thanksgiving. George Washington issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789. His successor, John Adams, recommended a day of fasting, humility and prayer.

President George Washington even issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, but it wasn't a permanent holiday, according to The Center for Legislative Archives.