On today's show, a Thanksgiving story you might never have heard — not about Pilgrims or Native people, but instead about a woman who, as civil war loomed, pushed for a shared national holiday she ...

Every year, November marks a shift from creative costumes and candy corn to gratitude practices and family feasts. When the Halloween festivities come to a close and the Thanksgiving season enters the ...

Leaders can unite or divide, whether it be by design or by misstep. Thanksgiving’s evolution shows how both can happen. On Oct. 3, 1863, amid profound division and upheaval of the Civil War, President ...