213 Rebecca Fraser, The Pilgrims of Plimoth

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 1621, the Pilgrims of Plimoth Colony and their Wampanoag neighbors came together to celebrate their first harvest. Today we remember this event as the first Thanksgiving.

But what do we really know about this holiday and the people who celebrated it?

So much of what we know about the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving comes to us through myth and legend, which is why Rebecca Fraser, author of The Mayflower: The Families, The Voyage, and the Founding of America, joins us to help suss out fact from fiction.

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's World is a production of the
0:02.7	O'Mohandro Institute.
0:04.2	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World,
0:07.7	podcast about early American history with Liz Covert.
0:11.7	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
0:17.0	Van Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world.
0:24.8	And now here's your host, Liz Koval.
0:27.5	Hello and welcome to episode 213 of Ben Franklin's world. The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how
0:35.8	the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world
0:39.8	we live in. In 1621 the pilgrims of Plymouth colony and their Wampanoag neighbors came together to celebrate their first harvest.
0:47.0	Today we remember this event is the first Thanksgiving.
0:50.0	But what do we really know about this holiday and the people who celebrated it?
0:55.0	So much of what we know about the pilgrims in the first Thanksgiving comes to us through myth and legend,
1:01.0	which is exactly why we need to pull back the curtain on this famous American celebration and explore
1:06.2	what it is that historians know about this event and the people who celebrated it.
1:10.8	To help us suss out fact from fiction is Rebecca Frazier, a writer and
1:14.8	biographer whose latest book is a history of the pilgrims who founded Plymouth
1:18.3	colony. It's called The Mayflower, The Families The Voyage and the
1:22.4	founding of America.
1:24.3	Now, as we investigate the lives and experiences of the pilgrims,
1:27.7	Rebecca reveals, details about the group we know as the pilgrims and why they
1:32.3	chose to migrate to North America.
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