Subsequent presidents issued Thanksgiving proclamations but the dates and even months of the celebration varied and it wasn’t until President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Proclamation that ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Thursday, Nov. 28 is the date of this year's Thanksgiving. President Abraham Lincoln declared a national Thanksgiving holiday in 1863.

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November. After some confusion in 1939 with Franklin D. Roosevelt moving around the official date ...

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 ...

T he annual American holiday called Thanksgiving formally began with an 1863 proclamation from Abraham Lincoln declaring the last Thursday in November a day of “thanksgiving and praise to our ...

For years, Thanksgiving Day was celebrated on different days. It wasn’t until 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as National Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving Day isn’t just about parades ... a national holiday in the United States since 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln declared it so. Due to the Civil war, the holiday was not ...