Thanksgiving 2008

Read through several Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations at www.pilgrimhall.org/ThanxProc.htm.
Then answer the following questions:

1. To whom do all Presidents give thanks for the blessings we have in America?

2. What is unusual about the way Presidents in the 20th and 21st
centuries record the date at the bottom of their proclamations?

3. In what way has the tone of the Thanksgiving proclamations changed over the past 200 years?