President George Washington aimed to unify the country with his first Thanksgiving message. Getty Images Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino. On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington ...

Our first president used the holiday to unite a divided nation. So can we. Washington’s Thanksgiving and Ours On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved ...

This Thanksgiving, we should set aside time not only for prayer as a grateful nation, a practice George Washington established in 1789 and Abraham Lincoln renewed during the Civil War, but to ...

The Father of His Country: George Washington And then, thank goodness, there is George Washington , who in 1789 issued the First Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation in these words: ...

George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation is going for sale at $15 million at Moments In Time. It features the entire proclamation alongside the signature of Washington.

Washington was not the only U.S. president to issue proclamations around the November holiday. In 1815, President James Madison called for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving, and in 1863 ...

On Nov. 26, 1789, President George Washington proclaimed the day “a day for thanksgiving and prayer.” The United States, under the U.S. Constitution, was not even a year old at this point, and ...

[Editor’s note: On Oct. 3, 1789, little more than five months after being sworn in as the nation’s first president, George Washington issued a proclamation calling for America’s first official ...

Before Thanksgiving became the prominent late November holiday, ... Gen. George Washington parades through Lower Manhattan on Evacuation Day on Nov. 25, 1783 ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — The northbound George Washington Memorial Parkway exit ramp to I-495 north and the Spout Run Parkway in Fairfax County will be closed for another two weeks, the National ...

On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved valets – William “Billy” Lee and the young Christopher Sheels – he powdered his hair, put on his favorite ...

On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved valets – William “Billy” Lee and the young Christopher Sheels – he powdered his hair, put on his favorite black ...