As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?
Like clockwork, my social media accounts are slowly being populated with posts about the true…
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Read MoreWithin William Bradford’s massive work, Of Plymouth Plantation, composed between 1630 and 1651 while he…
Read MoreReaders of RD don’t need to be told that the image of “The First Thanksgiving”…
Read MoreA reluctant Indian militant, a Jew with Christmas envy, and a feminist in search of an alternative Thanksgiving are among the scholars and writers who have weighed in over the years on our secular religious national holiday of Thanksgiving.
Read MoreThanksgiving has been marshaled in the battle over what is the proper interpretation of the idea of America. With thousands of refugees looking for amnesty in that “last, best hope of earth,” will the better angels of our nature find room for them at the table?
Read MoreOr, why we’re glad American culture settled on “Thanksgiving” over “Fasting and Humiliation.”
Read MoreIn a quiet part of the London borough of Southwark, on a street running parallel to…
Read MoreThirty-six years ago, as Americans prepared to celebrate Thanksgiving, a Catholic, a Protestant, and a Jew went…
Read MoreThanksgivukkah is a way of being out, loud, and proud—We’re here! We’re Jewish! We eat turkey AND latkes!—but can Jews ever compete with the juggernaut of Christmas?
Read MoreSecular holidays, actually constituting a quasi-sacred calendar, span the entire year: From New Year’s Day, the King Holiday, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, and now, at long last, Thanksgiving Day.
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