Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year.
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Carlotta Calmese bakes one of her family's traditional desserts for Thanksgiving — peach cobbler. Wisconsin Life producer Cynthia Woodland...
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A holiday that traces its origins back to 1621, when Puritan colonists in Plymouth, Mass., gathered for a feast to celebrate their first successful harvest.
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How Thanksgiving Became a National Holiday. Context: The first proclamation of an American "Thanksgiving" was November 1, 1777, when the 13...
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As an Indigenous person, I've long questioned what it meant for me to celebrate Thanksgiving. Then I started my own traditions.
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For many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of mourning and protest, so they have developed their own events for that date.
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In May 1541, Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led 1,500 men in a thanksgiving celebration in what is today the Texas Panhandle.
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Take that first Thanksgiving in 1621, for example — it probably wasn't the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving at all, but one in a string of many feasts...
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The first national Thanksgiving Day did not invoke the Pilgrims at all. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared a Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday of...
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Rebecca McLennan, a UC Berkeley professor of history, has given deeper thought to what's on ourThanksgiving plates today.
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