The First Thanksgiving
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Churchwell and Kathryn Gray joined me on the podcast to discuss the first Thanksgiving of 1621. They critique mythologies of Thanksgiving that have arisen from 19th century ideologues, to Reagan, to the present day, and reframe settler colonial narratives.
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| 0:18.6 | anniversary of D-Day, obviously. |
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| 0:33.5 | Hello everyone, welcome to Dance Know's history. |
| 0:38.3 | Hit happy Thanksgiving to everyone listening in the good old US of A. 400 years ago this |
| 0:43.8 | week, the Mayflower dropped its anchor at the north end of Cape Cod, that beautiful island |
| 0:50.4 | on the eastern seaboard in New England, which may have been visited by the way by the Vikings. |
| 0:55.2 | 600-500 years before a who knows, let's hope we're going to find that out one day. |
| 0:59.6 | Anyway, not important. |
| 1:00.6 | The Mayflower dropped its anchor and within days a group of so-called pilgrims had got |
| 1:06.8 | in the open boat and was set to explore what they thought of as a new world. |
| 1:11.4 | They ended up establishing the Plymouth colony. |
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