Tag: The first Thanksgiving.

• Thank George Washington for Thanksgiving.

  It wasn’t the pilgrims that gave us our modern understanding of Thanksgiving. Nor was it Lincoln’s Thanksgiving declaration during the Civil War. It was our first president, George Washington, who proclaimed, from New York City on October 3, 1789 our first Thanksgiving – a day set aside to thank God for the blessings of the…

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  November 28, 2019

  History & Culture, USA

  George Washington, Thanksgiving, The first Thanksgiving.