Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in ...

It was not even the first national Thanksgiving – which was held on Dec. 18, 1777, at then-General Washington’s behest. Nor ...

Washington believed that particular Thanksgiving in 1789 was a crucial occasion. He would use it to call on the people he now ...

Thanksgiving is around the corner. That holiday is an annual reminder of our nation’s Christian roots, our godly heritage.

Samuel Adams et al. wrote in that First National Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 1, 1777: “It is the indispensable Duty ...

Among our nation's "firsts" were the introduction of the separation of church and state and George Washington's proclamation ...

Washington doesn’t impose that duty on the people. He acknowledges their desire, expressed through Congress, to fulfill this ...

This Thanksgiving season, we have the chance to do what those presidents asked of Americans generations ago: pause, reflect, and recognize the blessings that remain, even in complicated times.

After the confusion, Congress decided on October 6, 1941, to give Thanksgiving a fixed date, declaring the fourth Thursday of ...

In 1789, George Washington issued a proclamation declaring Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a "day of public thanksgiving." ...