Thanksgiving is more than just turkey and pumpkin pie. It's a time to heal our nation's wounds and unite. Abraham Lincoln created the holiday for just that purpose. Now it's our turn.

Most Americans are familiar with the first Thanksgiving, a communal feast in 1621 between the Wampanoag and English colonists that symbolizes fraternity and community through food. However, the ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued his powerful Thanksgiving proclamation at the height of the Civil War, proving powr of gratitude when life as it at darkest.

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

In 1863, Thanksgiving for President Abraham Lincoln was about uniting all Americans toward building peace and healing wounds. Today, we should not forget this peace message of Thanksgiving. It can ...

For Lincoln, Thanksgiving was a day to not only reflect on our blessings but repent for our shortcomings and find ways to seek reconciliation to God and to our neighbors.

From George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt, the date for Thanksgiving has changed, much to the dismay of some.

Abraham Lincoln chose a moment of maximum national disunity — the depths of the Civil War — to adopt Hale’s idea as a gesture of national unity. Secretary of State William Seward, of Auburn ...

Charity at home and overseas is America's Thanksgiving story. President Abraham Lincoln believed the day should be spent praying for peace and caring for war victims.

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving ” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in ...

Thanksgiving might seem to some like a fairly uncontroversial national holiday. But it wasn’t the case in Abraham Lincoln’s day.

When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, he was thinking about the Civil War. And so was the woman who had lobbied for Thanksgiving for years.