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By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History since 1999

Our National Thanksgiving - 1858

Thursday November 20, 2008
Sarah Josepha Hale
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Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, deserves recognition as the Mother of the American Thanksgiving. This 1858 editor's column was part of the long campaign by Sarah Josepha Hale to get Thanksgiving accepted as a national holiday in the United States.

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