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Sarah Hale, credited for getting Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, shows how one person can make a difference. She made Thanksgiving dream a reality | Opinion Skip to main ...
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. [1]
This is a Nov. 26, 1996 photo of a painting of Sarah Josepha Hale, painted by James Reid Lambdin. Thanksgiving was celebrated independently by colonies and states for more than 200 years, The ...
The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was possibly inspired by an actual incident. [1] As described in one of Hale's biographies: "Sarah began teaching young boys and girls in a small school not far from her home [in Newport, New Hampshire ...
Sarah Josepha Hale, a native of New Hampshire and steeped in the traditions of a New England Thanksgiving, was the longtime editor of Godey's Ladies Book, the most widely circulated periodical in the antebellum U.S. Hale was the chief promoter of the modern idea of the holiday in the 19th century, from the foods served to the decorations to the ...
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"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) By Jennie A. Brownscombe. In the 1840s, American writer Sarah Josepha Hale read an account of the 1621 event, connected the feast to contemporary Thanksgiving celebrations, [15]: 26 and began advocating for a national Thanksgiving holiday in 1846.
Still, the claim lingered among some historians and even made it into President Ronald Reagan’s Thanksgiving proclamation in 1985, when he said “the time and date of the first American ...