History of the Holidays: History of Thanksgiving | History

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Ibolya Horváth
by HISTORY
published on 25 November 2020

Although Thanksgiving celebrations dated back to the first European settlements in America, it was not until the 1860s that Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November to be a national holiday.

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