The big holiday of the summer is here; the Fourth of July. It is a time when friends and family get together for cook-outs, parades and colorful fireworks displays. When we were children our cousins ...

The names of people who were enslaved on George’s Washington’s Mount Vernon estate are inscribed on the walls of what was their home: Tom Nokes. Vina. Barbara. Their names are grouped together by ...

His production dipped this past season (10.6 ppg, 5.5 rpg) in part due to a midseason ankle injury and in part because George Washington had more weapons, improving from 15-17 overall and 4-14 in ...

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

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 ...

George Washington, our first president, issued the first official Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, but the national holiday didn’t begin until 1863, two years into the Civil War, when it was ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

From George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt, the date for Thanksgiving has changed, much to the dismay of some.

This started in 1989 with former President George H. W. Bush in 1989, which marked the 200 th anniversary of former President George Washington's proclamation for Thanksgiving Day.