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Your search for: "Sarah Josepha Hale" OR "Sarah J Hale"


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Research Topics on: "Sarah Josepha Hale" OR "Sarah J Hale"

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Books on: "Sarah Josepha Hale" OR "Sarah J Hale"

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Journal Articles on: "Sarah Josepha Hale" OR "Sarah J Hale"

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Magazine Articles on: "Sarah Josepha Hale" OR "Sarah J Hale"

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Newspaper Articles on: "Sarah Josepha Hale" OR "Sarah J Hale"

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    Nation Gives Thanks as Result of Efforts of Dedicated Woman
    Newspaper article by Thomas V. Dibacco; The Washington Times, November 22, 2001
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Thanksgiving celebrated today is the accomplishment of one woman - Sarah Josepha Hale, who campaigned long and hard for the holiday, mostly...unexpectedly died just eight years after their marriage, Sarah Josepha Hale was faced with the bleakest of financial prospects for...
     
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    Bone Up on Your Thanksgiving Trivia
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 22, 2007
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Abigail Adams b) Betsy Ross c) Harriet Beecher Stowe d) Sarah Josepha Hale 10. What food is not native to America? a) turkey b...helped establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday? d) Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of the widely read Godeys Ladys Book, crusaded...
     
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    Giving Thanks for Long Weekends
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 25, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...issued his own proclamation. But between those events were decades of relentless lobbying and letter-writing campaigns by Sarah Josepha Hale, a New Hampshirite who made it her lifes mission to formalize the then-ad hoc holiday. (She also wrote "Mary Had...
     
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    Thanksgiving Observed in Midst of War
    Newspaper article by Paula V. Bowie; The Washington Times, November 20, 1999
    Subjects: 
    Lincoln, Abraham
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Thanksgiving observed in midst of war by Paula V. Bowie In 1836, a widow in Newport, N.H., Sarah Josepha Hale, wrote an anti-slavery novel titled "Northwood; or Life North and South." One chapter was devoted to a description of how...
     
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    Whom Do We Thank?
    Newspaper article by Karen Goldberg Goff; The Washington Times, November 19, 2000
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...territories were again observing a day of thanks. The person most responsible for getting national recognition for the day was Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of the womens magazine Godeys Ladys Book , Mr. Ray says. In a campaign that lasted nearly 40 years, Mrs. Hale...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Sarah Josepha Hale" OR "Sarah J Hale"

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    Periodical
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...mainstay of publishing. Godeys Ladys Book (Philadelphia, 1830 92; New York, 1892 98), edited from 1837 to 1877 by Sarah Josepha Hale , was among the most famous periodicals for women; its colored fashion plates are valued today by collectors. Among the...
     
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    Thanksgiving Day
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...established an annual Thanksgiving Day, but there was no annual national holiday until President Abraham Lincoln, urged by Sarah J. Hale , proclaimed one in 1863, appointing as the date the last Thursday of November. Although the only known contemporary account...
     

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