Has there ever been a Thanksgiving when our nation was as politically divided as it is today?
Yes, of course, during the Civil War — especially after the Union Army’s turning-point victory at Gettysburg prompted President Abraham Lincoln to proclaim Thursday, Nov. 23, 1863, as a federal holiday of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
But for a moment, let’s set aside all of today’s extreme divisiveness because, by this time, you have read or heard countless tips on “How to survive Thanksgiving with family” — as evidenced by that exact phrase yielding over 35 million Google search results.
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