Thanksgiving History Lincoln, Thanksgiving Day Abraham Lincoln Historical Society

It took the trauma of the civil war to make thanksgiving a formal annual holiday.

Vegan thanksgiving recipes. Writer sarah josepha hale campaigned for a national thanksgiving in the united states during the 19th century eventually winning president abraham lincolns support in 1863. History the year abraham lincoln declared thanksgiving in the tumult of a bloody civil war and a month before the gettysburg address lincoln asked his country to give thanks. The text of lincolns 1863 thanksgiving proclamation follows.

On october 3 1863 expressing gratitude for a pivotal union army victory at gettysburg president abraham lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official thanksgiving holiday on. Similarly named festival holidays occur in germany and japan. For thanksgiving lincoln borrowed from another famous president.

He and subsequent presidents proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving annually until 1941 when congress made thanksgiving official. Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the united states canada brazil grenada saint lucia and liberia and the sub national entities leiden norfolk island and puerto ricoit began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Secretary of state william seward wrote it and abraham lincoln issued it but much of the credit for the thanksgiving proclamation should probably go to a woman named sarah josepha hale.

Also riding high on the success of a war george washington who was a revolutionary war hero declared that the new nation of the united states should have a day of public thanksgiving and prayer in 1789 his first year as president. October 3 1863 by the president of the united states a proclamation the year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. Lincolns thanksgiving proclamation.

Lincoln issued his proclamation on oct. In addition to these historical achievements few know that lincoln also helped turn thanksgiving into a nationally observed holiday. The thanksgiving day of hale and lincoln was a domestic event a day of family homecoming a mythical and nostalgic idea of the hospitality civility and happiness of the american family.