Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and actor, was the keynoe speaker at a naturalization ceremony at Mount ...

Schwarzenegger also delivered a speech at a naturalization ceremony at Washington's home, Mount Vernon, located just outside ...

The wait was over for more than 100 people as they finally got to call the U.S. “home.” And what better place to do it than ...

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 ...