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. ...

On Nov. 26, 1789, President George Washington proclaimed the day “a day for thanksgiving and prayer.” The United States, under the U.S. Constitution, was not even a year old at this point, and ...

[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 ...

Washington observed the day “by attending services at St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City, and by donating beer and food to imprisoned debtors in the city.” Thanksgiving Proclamation [New York, 3 ...

George Washington, our first president, issued the first official Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, but the national holiday didn’t begin until 1863, two years into the Civil War, when it was ...

Edward Savage’s mezzotint engraving of George Washington, ... People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the ...

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, ...

Having lived through and proudly participated in America’s War of Independence, Shearith Israel’s members took heed to George Washington’s official declaration of Thanksgiving as a national ...

President George Washington aimed to unify the country with his first Thanksgiving message. Getty Images Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke ...

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 ...