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Thanksgiving Day - national holiday in the United States commemorating the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a winter of great starvation and privation. In that year Gov. William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving, and the feast was shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native Americans. Although similar observances were held locally, they were sporadic and at


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    The Making of the Domestic Occasion: The History of Thanksgiving in the United States, in Journal of Social History » Read Now

    by Elizabeth Pleck. 18 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...regions. The history of Thanksgiving is hallowed...national day of thanksgiving...American history. How were...that because Thanksgiving was a cultural...a Yankee day.(44)...
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    A Thanksgiving Quiz, in Social Studies » Read Now

    by John Ahern. 3 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...treated as history but also...Americans, Thanksgiving Day is called...celebrates Thanksgiving, it is a...holiday and a day on which...collect oral history and...
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    The American Presidency in Action, 1789: A Study in Constitutional History (Includes "The Proclamation of a Day of Thanksgiving" on p. 24) » Read Now

    by James Hart. 258 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...The Proclamation of a Day of Thanksgiving 24...CONSTITUTIONAL" AND "HISTORY" WHEN one writes...presidential proclamation of a thanksgiving day is scarcely to be...
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    The Lady of Godey's, Sarah Josepha Hale (Includes Chap. XII "Thanksgiving Day") » Read Now

    by Ruth E. Finley. 322 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...The private history of this book...XII THANKSGIVING DAY 195...nationalizing of Thanksgiving Day to outweigh...exhaustive "History of American...concern to-day. The...
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    The Oxford Companion to the Year (Includes "Thanksgiving" on p. 654) » Read Now

    by Bonnie Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens. 938 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...The Oxford Companion to the Year explores the fascinating history of calendars in general and our own in particular. The calendar used in the West today is just one of a...
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    Q: Should Public Schools Celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays?, in Insight on the News » Read Now

    by Eric Buehrer, Edd Doerr. 4 pgs.

    ...1963 proclamation, stated: "On that day let us gather in sanctuaries dedicated...Clinton, in his speech during the 1993 Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation Ceremony, said...
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    Days and Customs of All Faiths (Discussion of Thanksgiving begins on p. 300) » Read Now

    by Howard V. Harper. 388 pgs.

    ...by information or history or explanations...active interest one day some years ago when...his commemorative day was moved to January...in all Christian history occurred in...
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    Good Stories for Great Holidays: Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading (Section of Thanksgiving stories begins on p. 267) » Read Now

    by Frances Olcott Jenkins. 461 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Stories from American History 138...INDEPENDENCE DAY July 4...Romanorum 262 THANKSGIVING DAY Last Thursday in November...Love, Jr., The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New...
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    Our Holidays in Poetry » Read Now

    by Mildred P. Harrington, Josephine H. Thomas. 484 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...on! Day upon hastening day Still let us reverence...founder of liberty, History and tradition are explored...Our Nations birth gave history your name, Recording...purpose...
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    The Pan-American Mass, 1909-1914: A Rejected Contribution to Thanksgiving Day, in Church History » Read Now

    by James F. Vivian. 13 pgs.

    ...Thanksgiving Day in 1909...Tafts first Thanksgiving proclamation...professor of history in the University...national Thanksgiving day into a Roman...with the history . . ...
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    Patriotic Games: Sporting Traditions in the American Imagination, 1876-1926 (Includes Chap. Five "Thanksgiving Football Rituals") » Read Now

    by S. W. Pope. 220 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    In Patriotic Games, historian Stephen Pope explores the ways sport was transformed from a mere amusement into a metaphor for American life. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, sport became the most pervasive popular cultural activity in American society. During these years, basketball was invented...
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    Seneca Thanksgiving Rituals » Read Now

    by Wallace L. Chafe. 302 pgs.

    ...one stage of history three classes...Rituals in the Thanksgiving Dance. Historical...recorded on the same day and in the same...and ending: THANKSGIVING DANCE...this...
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    The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths of American Origin (Includes information on Thanksgiving in Chap. 1 "Invented Traditions") » Read Now

    by Ann Uhry Abrams. 378 pgs.

    Virginians have embellished the saga of Jamestown and Pocahontas, the Indian woman who saved the colony. Similarly, New Englanders have sanctified the Pilgrims and their mythical first step on Plymouth Rock. Here, the myths are compared.
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    America's Origin Myth: Remembering Plymouth Rock, in American Literary History » Read Now

    by Sargent Bush Jr. 12 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...to see it every day of the year, most especially Thanksgiving. All of this...approached the Rock.) "History is culturally...Seelyes tome on the "history" of Plymouth...
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    Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock (Includes information on Thanksgiving Day history in Chap. 16 "Feminizing the Rock") » Read Now

    by John Seelye. 704 pgs.

    Long celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place - the tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the...

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