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What the first Thanksgiving dinner actually looked like

  • Written by Julie Lesnik, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wayne State University
imageWaterfowl – not turkey – would have been the main course.Winslow Homer, 'Right and Left' (1909), National Gallery of Art

Most Americans probably don’t realize that we have a very limited understanding of the first Thanksgiving, which took place in 1621 in Massachusetts.

Indeed, few of our present-day traditions resemble what...

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