Washington declared a day of thanksgiving and prayer in 1789, partly to honor the new U.S. Constitution. But it was President Abraham Lincoln who proclaimed in 1863 that Thanksgiving would be held ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Ahead of Thanksgiving on Tuesday, the Husker football team made its annual visit to Lincoln hospitals, stopping by CHI St. Elizabeth and Bryan Health’s East Campus.

thanks to Abraham Lincoln. The enduring holiday has also nearly erased from our collective memory what happened between the Wampanoag and the English just one generation later. The Thanksgiving ...

Learn more about Sarah Josepha Hale and why she so desperately wanted President Abraham Lincoln to adopt the idea of Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Copied Did you know that for much of the ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Thursday, Nov. 28 is the date of this year's Thanksgiving. President ...

Abraham Lincoln would later declare Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863. Minnesota usually raises the most turkeys, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Around 38 million birds ...

Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863. On the final Sunday of February, the Archbishop of Mendoza sprinkles the season’s first grapes with holy water and offers the ...