President Abe Lincoln issued his powerful Thanksgiving proclamation on Oct. 3, 1863, asking Americans to set aside the last Thursday of November to praise 'our beneficent Father.'
Abraham Lincoln, in a stirring call to spiritual unity amid the carnage of the Civil War, issued his emotionally powerful Thanksgiving proclamation on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1863. The president invited Americans at home and abroad 'to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.' The tradition of Thanksgiving in America dated back to the first Pilgrim and Wampanoag feast of 1621.
The Thanksgiving date, the fourth Thursday in November, was finally made law, and a federal holiday, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Dec. 26, 1941. The statutory formality came amid another period of trauma in our national history, just 19 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Pilgrims and President Lincoln each emerged from the shock of their circumstances faithful in a brighter future built to the glory of God. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, SEPT.
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