When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, it took just six years before the first American football game was played on the holiday. My question is, what took so long?

In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he argued that the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln ...

President Abraham Lincoln called for a National Day of humiliation, fasting and prayer for the end of the Civil War, a time of great distress and death for our nation. Today, ...

Why did Abraham Lincoln pardon a turkey ... including a very special one that arrived in late 1863. Although Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday that year, a turkey was gifted to the ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... The President warned that if the rebellion did not end by January 1, 1863, he would issue his presidential order of emancipation ...

If you've driven on East Middle Street in Hanover Borough, you've likely noticed the massive new mural underway on the side of a Hanover business. The mural, on the side of 501 East Middle Street ...

During the period of 1849 to 1860 Abraham Lincoln spent more ... Springfield first shows a Lincoln street in 1881 and Chicago in 1863. Washington D.C. would name a road for Lincoln around 1863 ...

On February 1, 2003, the world lost Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six other crew members aboard the Space ...

Hegseth has made plain that his goal is to enhance the unbridled “lethality” of American military forces without handcuffs imposed by the law of armed conflict.

“We the people of the United States …” The notion that our government is comprised of citizens who rule themselves was repeated in President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address when ...

Abraham Lincoln is considered perhaps the most effective chief executive in the history of the United States. But one area ...