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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

October 3, 1863, is the day that brought us the proclamation of one of many food lovers’ favorite holidays, Thanksgiving. President Abraham Lincoln issued a historic proclamation that nationally ...

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

Presented by Abraham Lincoln reenactor Kevin Wood, the program the story of how Thanksgiving became a national tradition during his presidency.

Thanksgiving is that wonderful day where we gather around a table with friends and family and indulge in turkey made slightly better by cranberry sauce and an ungodly amount of pie, while ...