The Founding Fathers were “America First,” but they all would have recoiled at a rejection of universal charity.

Why do Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving? The answer is rooted in history, tradition and a bit of 19th-century marketing.

Thanksgiving, the festival of gratitude and togetherness, has been celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November since 1941.

While we often emphasize the 1621 celebration in Plymouth Colony, the first documented Thanksgiving celebration by English colonists occurred in Virginia on Dec. 3, 1619.

When former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral, he will join a bipartisan but ...

On this day in 1794, representatives of the U.S. and Great Britain signed Jay’s Treaty, which was named after the first chief ...

Laura Linney is among the huge A-list cast, but she’s not playing Giamatti’s wife Abigal Adams this time — Claire Danes is.

Today, our Nation marks the 162nd anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the brief yet immortal speech through which President Abraham Lincoln transformed ...