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English academic Godfrey Hodgson in his 2006 book, A Great and Godly Adventure: The Pilgrims and the Myth of the First Thanksgiving, suggests that calling the 1621 harvest feast a thanksgiving feast would be inaccurate, as although the Pilgrims did celebrate days of thanksgiving, the 1621 event is not referred to as such in any primary ...
Traditional "first Thanksgiving" stories taught in schools tend to erase the true history, and the Native American perspective.
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the country in large part due to the nation's founding as a colony of the American Colonization Society in 1821 by former slaves and free people of color from the United States. However, the Liberian celebration of the holiday is notably different from the American celebration.
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 post The Real History of Thanksgiving appeared first on Reader's Digest. Here's what really happened and the truth about some commonly held Thanksgiving myths. The Real History of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November (which became the uniform date country-wide in 1941). [2] [3] Outside the United States, it is sometimes called American Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.
Here's everything you need to know about Thanksgiving. Grab your forks and spoons! The biggest food holiday of the year is almost here. Here's everything you need to know about Thanksgiving.
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šālōš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles ...