Thanksgiving

American artists were instrumental in propagating the false narrative of Thanksgiving, a deliberate erasure of violence against Indigenous peoples.

Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.

Pass the free enterprise, please.

What happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more.

The NFL holiday tradition took off in 1934, when the Detroit Lions hosted the unbeaten Chicago Bears in a game broadcast nationally on radio.

Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621.

Many Americans were living under quarantines, and officials warned people to stay home for the holiday.

"I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of misconceptions."

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

From colonial times to the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving was very different from the holiday we know now.

Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.

A Native student explains why the holiday is a painful reminder of a whitewashed past.

How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday's spirit of unity and a country's legacy of exclusion.

Why Pilgrims would be stunned by our "traditional" Thanksgiving table, and other surprising truths about the invention of our national holiday.

The holiday emerged not from the 17th century, but rather from concerns over immigration and urbanization in the 19th century.

The forgotten history of Thanksgiving.

A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?

Christmas starts earlier every year — or does it?

19th-century African American writer Charles Chesnutt’s subversive literature.