President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous "Proclamation of Thanksgiving" on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in ...

and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

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President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving an annual, national holiday. But it was magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale ...

Many presidents ignored Hale's letters, but President Lincoln did not. His October 3rd, 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation read, "In the midst of a civil war of unequal magnitude and severity ...

The idea of thanksgiving days existed long before President Lincoln’s proclamation, O’Brien said. But they wouldn’t just be called on the fourth Thursday of November. Reinhardt, founder of the ...

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A famed publisher even wrote to President Herbert Hoover ... the trauma of the Civil War to make Thanksgiving a formal, annual holiday. Lincoln issued his proclamation on Oct. 3, 1863, three ...

Mrs. Hale’s letter led him to the proclamation of a day ... He was right. Would President Lincoln remind us of the same need for this moment of shared gratitude and gathering this Thanksgiving? We ...

Thanksgiving became regularly celebrated on the last Thursday in November starting in 1863 with a proclamation from President Abraham Lincoln. The last Thursday in November fell on the last day of ...

In that spirit, we again reproduce President Lincoln’s original Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day, dated Oct. 3, 1863. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with ...