Thanksgiving Wasn't Always a Source of National Unity.
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving: Nature’s God (Guelzo, Brookhiser, Bottum, and Dyer)
Allen Guelzo, Richard Brookhiser, Joseph Bottum, and Justin Dyer on the thought and action of Lincoln's Thanksgiving and his wrestling with God.
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving, And Ours
Allen Guelzo on how Abraham Lincoln created Thanksgiving.
Passionate Sympathies
Richard Brookhiser on the rhetoric and meaning of Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.
God and Mr. Lincoln
Joseph Bottum on the traces of Lincoln the national theologian in his Thanksgiving Proclamation.
On the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God
Justin Dyer on Lincoln’s natural theology and the relationship between Christianity and America.
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Thanksgiving remains one of our few unifying traditions.
We should be thankful for the sheer wonder of being.
The Genuinely American Debate over Federalism and Thanksgiving.
We must not ignore our extraordinary blessings.
