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 ...

Long after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1621 and celebrated a successful harvest with a three-day gathering that ...

Thanksgiving became a national holiday in the United States in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it to a deeply troubled nation.

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 ...

Following Lincoln’s proclamation of caring for those wounded by war, the first national Thanksgiving holiday was a success.