When Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, abolitionists hailed pumpkins as a symbol of virtue and the ...

The long-standing debate between sweet potato and pumpkin pie is about as old as Thanksgiving itself. But their history is ...

Red versus blue divides Americans today, but in the 1800s, pumpkin pie versus sweet potato pie signaled political and ...

“For millions of African Americans like me, Thanksgiving Day means sweet potatoes, not pumpkins.” – Adrian Miller for The ...

Give me another couple of weeks of pumpkin-spice. I’m not the only one. Americans love pumpkins. In the United States last year, two billion pounds of pumpkin was harvested from 66,200 acres.