Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in ...

Sign up here to follow this column by email. They came for George Washington on a chilly November night in 2020. Wielding ...

It was not even the first national Thanksgiving – which was held on Dec. 18, 1777, at then-General Washington’s behest. Nor ...

November 26 has always been a day marked by significant events across the globe.Back in 1789, the United States Congress ...

In 1789, George Washington issued a proclamation declaring Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a "day of public thanksgiving." ...

The U.S. president may be referred to as the most powerful person in the world now, but that wasn't what the Founding Fathers intended. In fact, when the United States was born, they didn't really ...

For George Washington, fame without honor was worthless, and ambition without an accompanying devotion to the public good would expose him to the contempt of posterity. Like Winston Churchill, ...

November 27, 2025 - In his first presidential proclamation, George Washington designated November 26, 1789 as a Day of National Thanksgiving. The next president to issue a Thanksgiving Proclamation ...

A pair of George Washington's spurs — on loan from Mount Vernon in Virginia — now sit at the center of a powerful new ...

For many Americans at the end of a(nother) brutal presidential election, the search for a historical precedent that represents an alternative to Donald Trump's crude ...

The version of the quote that widely circulated online was shortened and simplified, but it accurately preserved the meaning of Washington's original words as delivered in a March 15, 1783, speech.