According to Smithsonian Magazine, our beloved holiday actually has two histories: one real and one largely made up. Naturally, we celebrate the made-up version. Everything we know about the “first ...
The First Amendment and the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation both occurred in the autumn of 1789. George Washington issued a proclamation for a "day of public thanksgiving and prayer" just ...
Thanksgiving is steeped in stories of pilgrims and native people enjoying a harvest feast in Plymouth. But historians say the first "Thanksgiving" was 23 years earlier, in 1598 along the Rio Grande.