Subsequent presidents issued Thanksgiving proclamations but the dates and even months of the celebration varied and it wasn’t until President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Proclamation that ...

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November. After some confusion in 1939 with Franklin D. Roosevelt moving around the official date ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...