How Thanksgiving tells a story of America’s pluralism
Thanksgiving has remained America’s most treasured celebration: it combines tradition and invention, an appeal to the past and to the future, ancestor worship as well as acceptance of diversity.
The Religious and Cultural Origins of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.
The Catholic Connection To Thanksgiving Day
If Christmas is referred to as “The greatest story ever told,” America’s first Thanksgiving could very well be “The greatest story you’ve never heard before.”
Thanksgiving in North America: From Local Harvests to National Holiday
Most Americans are familiar with the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving Feast of 1621, but few realize that it was not the first festival of its kind in North America. Long before Europeans set foot in the Americas, native peoples sought to insure a good harvest with dances and rituals such as the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokees.
The Religious and Cultural Origins of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.