National Holiday: Thanksgiving

The True Story of Thanksgiving

The Mouse on the Mayflower

The Plymouth Plantation: The First Thanksgiving

Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Promise

Click on George Washington and go to the National Archives to see Washington's proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789, as an official holiday of "sincere and humble thanks."

 

Then...read about Lincoln's declaration...and then find out what President Roosevelt did....