Lincoln’s Thanksgiving

Transcript for President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation from October 3, 1863  The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we...

George Washington and Thanksgiving

Yuval Levin and Adam J. White at National Review: Each Thanksgiving calls to mind early Thanksgivings — at Plymouth in 1621, of course, but perhaps also in the nation’s capital in 1789. In October of that year, just months into the nation’s new constitutional...