Concerned the shortened Christmas shopping season could hurt the country’s economic recovery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to the second to last Thursday of November.

Thanksgiving is a day full of football and ... where it remained until the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt, ...

Some merchants worried that a late Thanksgiving would cut down on Christmas sales and asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move the holiday up by a week – which he did, creating ...

Franklin, and by Thanksgiving of 1903 they are secretly engaged. In the beginning of the 20th century, the United States is becoming a world power, and Theodore Roosevelt believes strongly that a ...

Steven Spielberg’s movie, “Lincoln,” opens today in Hutchinson. As much as emancipation of the slaves is part of Lincoln’s legacy, he should also be remembered as the “father of ...