The two men who almost derailed New England's first colonies
- Written by Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Jennie A. Brownscombe's 'The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth' (1914).Wikimedia Commons
There is no holiday more American than Thanksgiving – and perhaps none with origins so shrouded in comforting myths.
The story is simple enough. In 1620 a group of English Protestant dissenters known as Pilgrims arrived in what’s now Massachusetts to...
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