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 ...

T he annual American holiday called Thanksgiving formally began with an 1863 proclamation from Abraham Lincoln declaring the last Thursday in November a day of “thanksgiving and praise to our ...

For years, Thanksgiving Day was celebrated on different days. It wasn’t until 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as National Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving Day isn’t just about parades ... a national holiday in the United States since 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln declared it so. Due to the Civil war, the holiday was not ...

More than 160 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation that all Americans should “observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our ...