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 ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Thursday, Nov. 28 is the date of this year's Thanksgiving. President Abraham Lincoln declared a national Thanksgiving holiday in 1863.

For decades after that, the date and even the month of Thanksgiving moved around, with each president having to set the date every year. President Abraham Lincoln was the first to try to establish ...

Thanksgiving is a day full of football and ... similar proclamations on different days of the year. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation in 1863 declaring the last Thursday of November ...

Thanksgiving became regularly celebrated on the last Thursday in November starting in 1863 with a proclamation from President Abraham Lincoln. The last Thursday in November fell on the last day of ...

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 ...

For decades, Hale lobbied U.S. presidents to establish a fixed annual date for Thanksgiving. Her efforts bore fruit when President Abraham Lincoln declared it a national holiday in 1863.