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Free Pressers give thanks.
By Joe Nocera
11.28.24 — Culture and Ideas
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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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Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is a senior editor and writer at The Free Press. During his long career in journalism, he has been a columnist at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ, the editorial director of Fortune, and a writer at Newsweek, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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