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Thanksgiving (United States) Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. [2] It is sometimes called American Thanksgiving (outside the United States) to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.
Thanksgiving (French: l'Action de grâce), occurring on the second Monday in October, is an annual Canadian holiday to give thanks at the close of the harvest season. Although the original act of Parliament references God and the holiday is celebrated in churches, the holiday is mostly celebrated in a secular manner.
The story most people heard about Thanksgiving from a young age is pretty simple: A group of Pilgrims, fleeing religious persecution, sail to North American and settle on Plymouth Rock.
The traditional "first Thanksgiving" story taught in American schools tends to erase the true history between the Wampanoag tribe and the Pilgrims.
The post The Real History of Thanksgiving appeared first on Reader's Digest. The history of Thanksgiving isn't the rosy story from your childhood. Here's what really happened and the truth about ...
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Early on in school, we learn to equate Thanksgiving with a feast between Pilgrims and Native Americans, along with crafts like "Turkey Disguises" and *the* activity of tracing our hand prints to ...
The myth of the first Thanksgiving often attaches modern day Thanksgiving foods to the 1621 event. Turkey is commonly portrayed as a centerpiece of the first Thanksgiving meal, although it is not mentioned in primary sources, [ 5 ] and historian Godfrey Hodgson suggests turkey would have been rare in New England at the time and difficult for ...