Thanksgiving is more than just turkey and pumpkin pie. It's a time to heal our nation's wounds and unite. Abraham Lincoln ...

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

The Hanover area's newest mural, which will be finished in the spring, will commemorate Lincoln's passage just feet away from ...

It took years, but in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln finally proclaimed “a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise” — following a ...

Here's everything you need to know about Thanksgiving 2024 from the date it falls to the origins of why it's always on a ...

The details of the meal are ultimately incidental. The aim of the Thanksgiving gathering is not to eat, but to be together.

When Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, abolitionists hailed pumpkins as a symbol of virtue and the ...

1863, near the site of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United States in a speech known ...

Nearly 161 years after Abraham Lincoln delivered the famed Gettysburg ... Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address Nov. 19, 1863, to dedicate the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg ...

When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, he was thinking about the Civil War. And so was the ...

We tend to associate Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims in 1621. Shiny square buckles on boxy black shoes and a feast with the Indians, but in fact, this cherished national holiday actually began ...