It takes about five minutes of searching the internet to find revisionist histories of the first Thanksgiving. To celebrate their first successful harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims did have a feast, we are told, but it was a small one, and they never bothered to invite the Wampanoag, the Massachusetts tribe that had helped them survive that first year. (The…
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