Historian Debunks the Most Common Thanksgiving Lies | Melanie Kirkpatrick

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of “Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience,” about the truth about Thanksgiving and what the first Thanksgiving was actually like. She explains why Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Josepha Hale should receive the majority of the credit for creating the Thanksgiving holiday as we know it. She also explains how the real Thanksgiving story is much different from the modern version influenced by progressive politics. She also shares a variety of lesser-known historical facts, like the time that Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a decision that resulted in Democrats and Republicans holding two separate Thanksgivings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.9	It seemed like you were the person to talk to on Thanksgiving. I have a lot of questions
1:03.9	about Thanksgiving. Are you the preeminent Thanksgiving expert in America?
1:08.7	Well, I don't want to sound immodest, but perhaps so.
1:14.6	Pretty good. All right. So I have a lot of questions about trip to fan, but I think you
1:17.9	mostly want to focus on the history of Thanksgiving. Is that correct?
1:22.3	It sounds like a good idea. The trip to fan has come up. It's one of the reasons everybody
1:28.2	loves Thanksgiving. It helps put you to sleep.
1:31.1	Put you to sleep. You unbuckle the pads. You're good to go.
1:33.8	All right. So let's talk because this actually is a very special Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
1:38.3	2021. This is the 400th anniversary of Thanksgiving. I feel like a lot of people don't know that.
1:44.7	So let's do a little 101. What happened 400 years ago back in 1621?
1:51.6	The first thing I'll mention is that there are two eyewitness accounts by pilgrims of
1:56.8	the first Thanksgiving. Neither one of them uses the word Thanksgiving, which is kind of
2:03.2	interesting. That's been imposed on it over the centuries.
2:09.3	It meets with the dovetails with the pilgrims idea of what a Thanksgiving is. It's a day
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