A Short History Of Thanksgiving

Author : Sally Lee
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1491460970
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Thanksgiving written by Sally Lee and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history and traditions of the Thanksgiving holiday, including the original fall harvest celebration, how it became an official U.S. holiday, and how people celebrate it today.

Author : Robert Tracy McKenzie
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830895663
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Thanksgiving written by Robert Tracy McKenzie and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword Book of the Year Award Finalist 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. McKenzie avoids both idolizing and demonizing the Pilgrims, and calls us to love and learn from our flawed yet fascinating forebears. The First Thanksgiving is narrative history at its best, and promises to be an indispensable guide to the interplay of historical thinking and Christian reflection on the meaning of the past for the present.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanie Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772131
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thanksgiving written by Melanie Kirkpatrick and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the story of Thanksgiving. Or do we? This uniquely American holiday has a rich and little known history beyond the famous feast of 1621. In Thanksgiving, award-winning author Melanie Kirkpatrick journeys through four centuries of history, giving us a vivid portrait of our nation's best-loved holiday. Drawing on newspaper accounts, private correspondence, historical documents, and cookbooks, Thanksgiving brings to life the full history of the holiday and what it has meant to generations of Americans. Many famous figures walk these pages—Washington, who proclaimed our first Thanksgiving as a nation amid controversy about his Constitutional power to do so; Lincoln, who wanted to heal a divided nation sick of war when he called for all Americans—North and South—to mark a Thanksgiving Day; FDR, who set off a debate on state's rights when he changed the traditional date of Thanksgiving. Ordinary Americans also play key roles in the Thanksgiving story—the New England Indians who boycott Thanksgiving as a Day of Mourning; Sarah Josepha Hale, the nineteenth-century editor and feminist who successfully campaigned for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday; the 92nd Street Y in New York City, which founded Giving Tuesday, an online charity established in the long tradition of Thanksgiving generosity. Kirkpatrick also examines the history of Thanksgiving football and, of course, Thanksgiving dinner. While the rites and rituals of the holiday have evolved over the centuries, its essence remains the same: family and friends feasting together in a spirit of gratitude to God, neighborliness, and hospitality. Thanksgiving is Americans' oldest tradition. Kirkpatrick's enlightening exploration offers a fascinating look at the meaning of the holiday that we gather together to celebrate on the fourth Thursday of November. With Readings for Thanksgiving Day designed to be read aloud around the table.

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Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0679802185
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Thanksgiving written by and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.

Author : Don Bolognese
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 1623347637
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the First Thanksgiving written by Don Bolognese and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this illustrated story of the first Thanksgiving….and then learn to draw it yourself!

Author : David J. Silverman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632869268
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Land Is Their Land written by David J. Silverman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the “First Thanksgiving.” The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.

Author : Dana Meachen Rau
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780516270630
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thanksgiving written by Dana Meachen Rau and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.

Author : William Bradford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 written by William Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Dalgliesh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442465522
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thanksgiving Story written by Alice Dalgliesh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this festive Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages. Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things get a little more cramped when their baby brother Oceanus is born during the passage. However, when they arrive, there are even worse challenges to face as the Pilgrims are subjected to hunger, cold, and sickness that put their small colony in great danger. With the help of the Native Americans though, they might just be able to survive their first year in this strange land—and have a November harvest to celebrate for generations!