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You Cannot Give Thanks for What Is Stolen
American artists were instrumental in propagating the false narrative of Thanksgiving, a deliberate erasure of violence against Indigenous peoples.
by
Joseph Pierce
via
Hyperallergic
on
November 23, 2022
How to Tell the Thanksgiving Story on Its 400th Anniversary
Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.
by
David Kindy
via
Smithsonian
on
November 23, 2021
How the American Right Claimed Thanksgiving for Its Own
Pass the free enterprise, please.
by
Lawrence B. Glickman
via
Slate
on
November 22, 2021
The First Thanksgiving is a Key Chapter in America's Origin Story
What happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more.
by
Peter C. Mancall
via
The Conversation
on
November 22, 2021
How the NFL Popularized Thanksgiving Day Football
The NFL holiday tradition took off in 1934, when the Detroit Lions hosted the unbeaten Chicago Bears in a game broadcast nationally on radio.
by
Chris Mueller
via
HISTORY
on
November 10, 2021
This Tribe Helped the Pilgrims Survive for Their First Thanksgiving. They Still Regret It.
Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621.
by
Dana Hedgpeth
via
Retropolis
on
November 4, 2021
We're Celebrating Thanksgiving Amid a Pandemic. Here's How We Did it in 1918 and What Happened Next.
Many Americans were living under quarantines, and officials warned people to stay home for the holiday.
by
Grace Hauck
via
USA Today
on
November 24, 2020
The Way American Kids Are Learning About the 'First Thanksgiving' Is Changing
"I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of misconceptions."
by
Olivia B. Waxman
via
Time
on
November 21, 2019
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
by
Philip J. Deloria
via
The New Yorker
on
November 18, 2019
partner
Thanksgiving Has Been Reinvented Many Times
From colonial times to the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving was very different from the holiday we know now.
by
Elizabeth Pleck
,
Matthew Wills
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 1, 2019
A Brief History of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.
by
Rachel B. Herrmann
via
History Extra
on
November 21, 2018
Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning
A Native student explains why the holiday is a painful reminder of a whitewashed past.
by
Allen Salway
via
Paper
on
November 21, 2018
The Dark and Divisive History of America’s Thanksgiving Hymn
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.
by
Neil J. Young
via
The Atlantic
on
November 23, 2017
partner
American as Pumpkin Pie
Why Pilgrims would be stunned by our "traditional" Thanksgiving table, and other surprising truths about the invention of our national holiday.
via
BackStory
on
November 25, 2016
partner
The Modern Invention of Thanksgiving
The holiday emerged not from the 17th century, but rather from concerns over immigration and urbanization in the 19th century.
by
Anne Blue Wills
,
Livia Gershon
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 26, 2014
Which Thanksgiving?
The forgotten history of Thanksgiving.
by
Karl Jacoby
via
Los Angeles Times
on
November 26, 2008
partner
The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong
A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.
by
Jeremy Bangs
via
HNN
on
September 1, 2005
Thankstaking
Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?
by
Jane Kamensky
via
Commonplace
on
January 1, 2001
When Christmas Started Creeping
Christmas starts earlier every year — or does it?
by
Bill Black
via
Contingent
on
November 8, 2022
Thanksgiving and the Curse of Ham
19th-century African American writer Charles Chesnutt’s subversive literature.
by
Imani Perry
via
The Atlantic
on
November 23, 2021
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