The First Amendment and the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation both occurred in the autumn of 1789. George Washington issued a proclamation for a "day of public thanksgiving and prayer" just ...

Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in the same way we do today. During the American Revolution, colonial ...

President George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation under the new U.S. Constitution on Oct. 3, 1789, asking for Thursday, Nov. 26 of that year to be "a day of public thanksgiving ...

A sculpture of George Washington by artist Gary Lee Price was displayed at the Dallas Arboretum during Thanksgiving, 2016. Contributor Dallas Gingles examines what we can learn from our first ...

In 1789, just years after America’s triumph over tyranny in the Revolutionary War, President George Washington established the first National Day of Thanksgiving, declaring “the duty of all Nations to ...

Listen! Listen to the truth-tellers who renamed Thanksgiving a day of mourning. It started in Connecticut—but not the way we were told at school. In 1637, the English colonizers carried out a pre-dawn ...

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both ...