Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation…with Asterisks for 2020

Given the politico-cultural rhetoric of today—which has included references aloud to a second civil war—it is interesting to re-read President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, which he delivered in 1863, midway through the actual Civil War. I offer it here, with asterisks and notes below. Washington, D.C. October 3, 1863 By the President of the United…

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