Thanksgiving in the US is traditionally a time for family and food. American schoolchildren typically learn that the tradition dates back to the Pilgrims, who helped establish Plymouth Colony in ...

so that could have contributed to the Thursday Thanksgiving tradition. At any rate, Thanksgiving has been held on a Thursday in November since George Washington’s presidency. Washington declared ...

When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, it took just six years before the first American football game was played on the holiday. My question is, what took so long?

In what has most certainly been one of the most unusual years in memory, the nation will mark Thanksgiving once again on this fourth Thursday in November. It is part of a long tradition that has ...

Regardless of who you spend the holiday with or how full your belly gets, there is another tradition that remains constant year after year … Thanksgiving football. Those two words go together ...