It's Thanksgiving, so as America sits down to its first helpings of turkey, you can learn more about this uniquely American holiday:
- So what, and why, is America celebrating? Angie Leventis meets St. Louis school children learning about a more historically accurate Thanksgiving, in the St. Louis Dispatch...
- ...and the History News Network opens its Thanksgiving archives, here...
- ...whilst Robert Jensen argues that the holiday should be transformed into a National Day of Atonement "to acknowledge the genocide of indigenous people that is central to the creation of the United States."
- You can read the President's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation here, courtesy of The Seattle Times...
- ...find out which of the Presidential candidates Americans would most like to share their Thanksgiving meal with via Fox...
- ...and experience Thanksgiving in Iraq with Annie Ciezadlo in the New York Times.
- And finally: Michelle Tsai asks, "Wherefore Turkey?" in Slate
If you fancy partaking yourself, Vista are hosting a Thanksgiving dinner tonight - from 7pm.
It's Thanksgiving, so as America sits down to its first helpings of turkey, you can learn more about this uniquely American holiday:
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