On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early ... He had an important aim that day: to celebrate Thanksgiving. Washington had thought carefully about this Thanksgiving, the first ...

In 1815, President James Madison called for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving ... there’s an historical link. George Washington paid 18 shillings to have a camel brought to Mount ...

He had an important aim that day: to celebrate Thanksgiving ... But, as a scholar of George Washington, I see it as an important step in his much larger political plan to bring the executive ...

(WHTM) — On this day in 1789, President George Washington issued his first proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving for Thursday, Nov. 26, in honor of the establishment of the new ...

One hundred seventy years later, after the American Revolution, George Washington was elected President under the Constitution, and revived the idea of a national day of thanksgiving. The day of ...

But never mind about Thoreau and Twain. By Lincoln’s day, George Washington had already provided us with a Thanksgiving proclamation that today, nearly two and a half centuries later ...

As the first president of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration in America, marking Nov. 26, 1789, “as a day of public thanksgiving and ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

George Washington, as proclaimed by Virginian ... He can also be considered first in Thanksgiving Day. For years historians have given credit to President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation on ...

On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early ... He had an important aim that day: to celebrate Thanksgiving. Washington had thought carefully about this Thanksgiving, the first of his ...