Especially because the traditional "first Thanksgiving" story taught ... 26, 1789, as a day of prayer and thanksgiving. Thanksgiving itself was not celebrated annually until 1863 when President ...

years. But what did the very first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade look like? And what was the first float in the parade? View of a giant fish ballon from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1929.

Thanksgiving in the US is traditionally a time for family and food. American schoolchildren typically learn that the tradition dates back to the Pilgrims, who helped establish Plymouth Colony in ...

Historians don’t know exactly which day the "first Thanksgiving" between the Pilgrims and Native Americans fell on — and it actually happened in October, not November, according to the Farmer ...

This year, however, I thought it’d be fun to look at the first Thanksgiving Day itself – the events, the people and the feast. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly ...

When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, it took just six years before the first American football game was played on the holiday. My question is, what took so long?

The first Thanksgiving was observed in Plymouth ... George Washington issued his Thanksgiving proclamation, designating “a day of public thanks-giving” to be held on “Thursday the 26th ...