This short video from The History Channel website offers an overview of how Thanksgiving came to be enshrined in America's national calendar. According to the website, "Although Thanksgiving celebrations dated back to the first European settlements in America, it was not until the 1860s that Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November to be a national holiday."
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