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A centerfold from Harper’s Weekly, engraved by Thomas Nast (1840–1902) to mark Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1863. That year, Thanksgiving fell in the midst of the Civil War, and seven days after Abraham Lincoln had delivered his Gettysburg Address, prophesying a nation born again, “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.” Nast depicts Lady Liberty kneeling in prayer, surrounded
by inset images of a variety of other Americans in prayer, including President Lincoln. Image © Son of the South Material.