Thanksgiving in the United States

The origins of Thanksgiving trace back to this mythic meal that was shared between the pilgrims and the Native Americans in the colony of New Plymouth. Adam Sobel: Was this sharing of a mutual bounty of a harvest, like American kids are taught, or is this better thought of as the kind of breaking of bread before an extended bid for colonialism across the continent? He says there were more 1.0 ag attendees at that first dinner in 1621 than there were settlers. Sobel: The modern institution of Thanksgiving, and this also, I think, gives it its peculiar coloration as a, you know, an ambiguous sort of celebration of American migration and immigration really dates to the 19th century