In some ways, Thanksgiving is a tradition that unites Americans. But the classic image of the Pilgrims obscures important ...
Goetze: While researching the historical and legendary 1621 Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving, I discovered interesting and somewhat contradictory material.
The first Thanksgiving started after the New England colonists survived a harsh winter after landing on Plymouth Rock.
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The first Thanksgiving is a key chapter in America’s origin story – but what happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more
This was the event that now marks the first American day of Thanksgiving, even though many Indigenous peoples had long had rituals that included giving thanks and other European settlers had ...
“Narratives of a harmonious Thanksgiving celebration were created to justify westward expansion and Manifest Destiny,” ...
This time of year brings with it one of America’s most enduring stories — one we tell ourselves to feel better. The story of the “First Thanksgiving,” as many of us learned in school, is false in ...
There were wild turkeys in North America in the 1620s, so there could have been turkeys at the first harvest festival, but ...
Celebrate the lives of Gary Domke and Hank Hester while reflecting on the Pilgrims’ courage, faith, and the first Thanksgiving—a tribute to resilience and freedom rooted in Judeo-Christian values.
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