Andrew Wiget: THANKSGIVING: Holidays and the Progressive Development of a Public Ideology

Please see the presentation “THANKSGIVING: Holidays and the Progressive Development of a Public Ideology“: 7 декабря 2021 г. состоялось онлайн-заседание Американского семинара МАЭ, ИЭА и СПбИИ РАН, на котором с докладом THANKSGIVING: Holidays and the Progressive Development of a Public Ideology выступил Andrew Wiget, Professor Emeritus of New Mexico State University. The week of the fourth Thursday in November represents the heaviest travel weekend of the year in the United States. Most Americans fly across the country to gather then for a traditional Thanksgiving meal of turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie. Many believe that the holiday commemorates how the Puritan founders of New England survived their first winter with the help of friendly Indians. Yet Thanksgiving was not established as a national holiday until 1863, and Bradford’s manuscript Of Plimoth Plantation, which reports that famous first meal, was only rediscovered and republishe