At the urging of magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale, President Abraham Lincoln declared an annual national holiday of ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving ” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging.

A magazine "editress" tried for decades to persuade the president to declare "a day for our national rejoicing." Lincoln ...

USS Theodore Roosevelt was the previous American aircraft carrier operating in the South China Sea. It was underway in the ...

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

The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags did indeed share a harvest celebration together at Plymouth in fall 1621, but that moment got ...

Trump’s future solicitor general calls for ‘unity’ as he pleads with Letitia James to throw out a $350 million ruling ...

Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln docked at Port Klang, Malaysia last week, making its first visit to the Southeast Asia ...

At the height of the Civil War, Lincoln issued a proclamation to urge Americans to celebrate their blessings. Thanksgiving has been a tradition since.

It wasn't until October of 1863, during the height of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National ...

When President Abraham Lincoln first proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday, little did he know he was spelling the beginning of the end to the prominence of the original patriotic celebration ...

The history of White House Thanksgiving traditions date back more than 160 years to President Abraham Lincoln, who ...