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Learn about the story behind the tradition of Thanksgiving with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Thanksgiving is a North American festival. It commemorates the good fortune its founders encountered when they arrived in the New World. In Canada, Thanksgiving is held on the second Monday of October. In the United States of America, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.

explores the evolving traditions and practices surrounding Thanksgiving in the United States. It examines the holiday's historical roots, its transformation into a national celebration, and how modern trends like food technology, consumer preferences, and environmental awareness are reshaping how Americans observe Thanksgiving. The text also investigates the changing ways that food is prepared, sourced, and shared during this holiday.

Thanksgiving and American Identity explores how a November feast became America's most powerful origin story. Hosted by AI narrator Alex Calder, this series examines the mythology surrounding Pilgrims and Native Americans, revealing how gratitude transformed into a test of national virtue and patriotic duty. We investigate the deliberate invention of Thanksgiving traditions by magazine editors, corporations, and politicians who understood that shared rituals build national identity. Through three episodes, we unpack the contradictions between American ideals and realities, asking what it means...

Thanksgiving Timeline - Series Summary Thanksgiving Timeline is a comprehensive audio journey through the complete history of America's most beloved autumn holiday. Hosted by AI culinary expert Claire Delish, this series explores the deep roots of harvest gratitude celebrations, from Indigenous ceremonies and European traditions through the famous sixteen twenty-one Plymouth feast, colonial observances, Revolutionary Era proclamations, and the holiday's evolution into a national institution. Each episode reveals surprising truths about the foods, customs, and cultural forces that shaped ...

Thanksgiving uncovers the hidden history behind America's most iconic food holiday. Hosted by Claire Delish, an AI culinary historian, this podcast series explores the ancient Indigenous harvest traditions that existed for thousands of years before European contact, separates historical fact from fiction about the sixteen twenty-one Plymouth gathering, and traces how scattered regional celebrations became a unified national holiday through Sarah Josepha Hale's tireless campaign and Abraham Lincoln's Civil War proclamation. With a focus on centering Indigenous perspectives and examining ...

The Pilgrims' celebration of the first Thanksgiving is a keystone of America's national and spiritual identity. But is what we've been taught about them or their harvest feast what actually happened? And if not, what difference does it make? Through the captivating story of the birth of this quintessentially American holiday, veteran historian Tracy McKenzie helps us to better understand the tale of America's origins—and for Christians, to grasp the significance of this story and those like it.

Squanto: The Man Who Shaped Thanksgiving Long before the Mayflower touched the shores of what would become Plymouth, Massachusetts, a young Patuxet man's life would take a series of extraordinary turns that would ultimately shape the course of American history. Tisquantum, known to history as Squanto, lived a life so remarkable that if it appeared in fiction, it would seem impossibly far-fetched. Born around 1585 into the Patuxet tribe, a subdivision of the larger Wampanoag confederation, Tisquantum's early years were spent in a thriving coastal community occupying the exact location where the...

Sarah Josepha Hale: The Woman Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday" - Part 1 of Our Thanksgiving Series On October 3, 1863, as the Civil War raged across a divided nation, President Abraham Lincoln took a moment to focus on gratitude. With the stroke of a pen, he established Thanksgiving as a national holiday, fulfilling a dream that one determined woman had pursued for nearly two decades. The story of how Thanksgiving became a unified American celebration weaves together persistence, politics, and the power of the written word. Sarah Josepha Hale, often remembered today as the author of "...

The act of dedicating a time to be thankful preceded the Thanksgiving holiday. It even preceded what most think of as the “First Thanksgiving” in Plymouth. This act became an official holiday only after a committee introduced a resolution on the matter to the House and Senate in 1789. President Washington instituted the holiday, stating that it would be “devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.”

First Feast Forensics - Episode 1: The Reality Behind the First Thanksgiving Menu Welcome to First Feast Forensics. Today we're peeling back the layers of history to uncover what was actually served at the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621. Most of what we think we know about this famous feast comes from just two primary sources - a letter by Edward Winslow and a passage in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation. These sparse historical records paint a very different picture from our modern celebrations, and over the next thirty minutes, we'll explore exactly what that three-day feast ...