The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

A major restoration project is underway at George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia, in preparation for America’s 250th Birthday next year.

Thanksgiving, in general, has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions. A day of giving thanks initially for the blessing of a good year of harvest and now also for all blessings ...

Before Thanksgiving became the prominent late November holiday, much of America celebrated "Evacuation Day" – commemorating the day the last Redcoats fled New York in 1783.

Our first president used the holiday to unite a divided nation. So can we. Washington’s Thanksgiving and Ours On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved ...

It was Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1974, Washington at Dallas. The NFL had 26 teams in those days, and get this: only the top four in each conference qualified for the playoffs. Washington was ...

Americans have been giving thanks with feasting dating back to 1541, according to the National Park Service, but President George Washington didn’t declare Nov. 26 a national day of thanks until ...

So were the more solemn thanksgiving ceremonies, and George Washington held one after the Revolutionary War. But it was not until about 250 years after Plymouth Rock that a national Thanksgiving ...

Is the local bank in Washington open on Thanksgiving? No, U.S. stock markets and banks across the U.S. are closed on Thanksgiving Day as it is a Federal Reserve banking holiday.

By Lincoln’s day, George Washington had already provided us with a Thanksgiving proclamation that today, nearly two and a half centuries later, still stands as a Thank You that a nation can put ...

President George Washington even issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, but it wasn't a permanent holiday, according to The Center for Legislative Archives.