Editor’s Note: This is our annual Thanksgiving article, originally published in 2013. Happy Thanksgiving from War on the Rocks! Today is all about tradition: turkey and stuffing; family, friends, and ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by War on the Rocks in 2013. Happy Thanksgiving from War on the Rocks! Today is all about tradition: turkey and stuffing; family, friends, and ...

Two stories anchor our oldest holiday. Both took place in times of division and deprivation. And both offer a hopeful note about who we can be when we try. The first, of course, unfolds in Plymouth, ...

On Nov. 4, 1866, the Montgomery Advertiser published a proclamation that had been signed by Alabama Gov. Robert Miller Patton three days earlier. It was an official welcome to Thanksgiving for his ...

That national sameness was very much a goal of the holiday’s architects, who created it at an even more divisive moment. With the Civil War raging in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln and his secretary ...

The Thanksgiving story most of us hear is about friendship and unity. And that's what Sarah Josepha Hale had on her mind when she sat down to write a letter to President Lincoln in 1863, deep into the ...