In 1789, Washington urged the people of the United States to celebrate “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” ...
Sign up here to follow this column by email. They came for George Washington on a chilly November night in 2020. Wielding ...
Among our nation's "firsts" were the introduction of the separation of church and state and George Washington's proclamation ...
Washington doesn’t impose that duty on the people. He acknowledges their desire, expressed through Congress, to fulfill this ...
Samuel Adams et al. wrote in that First National Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 1, 1777: “It is the indispensable Duty ...
Thanksgiving is around the corner. That holiday is an annual reminder of our nation’s Christian roots, our godly heritage.