How the U.S. Came Together Around the Thanksgiving Dinner Table
What often gets lost in our celebration of Thanksgiving among the turkey, the football, and the Macy’s Day Parade is the role of Abraham Lincoln in the foundation of the revered family Holiday. It wasn’t until Lincoln’s proclamation of the observance of a national day of thanks to unify a country divided during the Civil War, that Thanksgiving as we know it came to be celebrated nationally on the last Thursday of every November.