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Nov 2021
21m 21s

The myth of Thanksgiving

THE WASHINGTON POST
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This year marks the 400th anniversary of the “first Thanksgiving” between English pilgrims and Wampanoags in Massachusetts. But historians say the true story of what happened bears little resemblance to the myth that many Americans learn in grade school. 
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