I do invite my fellow-citizens to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving, ...

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

A statue on the Kansas Statehouse grounds, pictured Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, in Topeka, honors Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, who kept the Union intact during the Civil War. TOPEKA — Is ...

Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in ...

In an effort to further promote unity in the United States, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation in 1863 calling ...

Thomas Jefferson is the only president who declined to endorse the tradition of Thanksgiving. For him, it was a question of ...

Since 1971, when the Uniform Monday Holiday Act became law, the third Monday in February has been a national holiday, Presidents Day, which falls neatly between the birthdays of our two greatest ...

This photo from Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, shows the face of a statue honoring Abraham Lincoln, the president who kept the Union intact during the Civil War, on the Kansas Statehouse grounds, in Topeka, ...