http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=250 STRATEGIES Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:59:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=250&cpage=1#comment-3754 A Wartime Thanksgiving « The Jack Miller Center Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:54:51 +0000 http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=250#comment-3754 [...] On Saturday, October 3, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving Day in America went back centuries, to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation in 1621, if not before. Earlier Presidents had declared Thanksgivings, but Lincoln was the first to set Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday of November. And there it has remained, ever since. |More| [...] [...] On Saturday, October 3, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving Day in America went back centuries, to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation in 1621, if not before. Earlier Presidents had declared Thanksgivings, but Lincoln was the first to set Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday of November. And there it has remained, ever since. |More| [...]

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