As the Civil War raged on 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln issued his second annual Thanksgiving Proclamation.
That piece of Thanksgiving history is the subject of my post How the Civil War Created Thanksgiving in the New York Times Disunion blog series.
Abraham Lincoln (November 1863) Photo by Alexander Gardner
The partial text of Lincoln’s Proclamation can be found in this Who Said It? post
Read more about Lincoln and the Civil War in Don’t Know Much About History, Don’t Know Much About the Civil War and Don’t Know Much About the American Presidents.
Don’t Know Much About the Civil War (HarperPerennial Paperback/Random House Audio)
Don’t Know Much About® the American Presidents (Hyperion Paperback/Random House Audio)
Don’t Know Much About® History: Anniversary Edition (Harper Perennial and Random House Audio)
