After the turning point for the Americans at Saratoga during the Revolutionary War, the Continental ... According to the African American Registry, “Thanksgiving expression for the American ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the ... during the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln declared a national Thanksgiving Day would be held each November to be celebrated ...

Three years later, which was also a year after Lincoln’s assassination, a post-Civil War Alabama was going to welcome the holiday with Lincoln's date. Truthfully, a Thanksgiving of sorts had ...

Did you know that a woman helped make Thanksgiving a national holiday? Sarah Josepha Hale was a novelist, poet, and editor of a very popular pre-Civil War lifestyle magazine. Hale campaigned for a ...