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 ...

On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved valets ... He urged the people of the United States to celebrate “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer. ...

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 ...

He urged the people of the United States to celebrate “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” But Washington believed that particular Thanksgiving in 1789 was a crucial occasion.

On Nov. 26, 1789, President George Washington proclaimed a national day of ‘thanksgiving and prayer. ... 1789, “as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, ...

Henry David Thoreau in 1856, George Washington in 1797 and Mark Twain in 1907 ... requested me ‘to recommend to the people of the United States a Day of Publick Thanksgiving and Prayer, ...

[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 ...

And in 1779, Virginia’s wartime governor, Thomas Jefferson, signed a proclamation declaring Thursday, Dec. 9, “a day of publick and solemn thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God.” ...

He urged the people of the United States to celebrate “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” But Washington believed that particular Thanksgiving in 1789 was a crucial occasion.

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 ...