S1, Ep 1: Why Thanksgiving?

In Episode 1, our hosts discuss the history of Thanksgiving and how the traditional myth perpetuates indigenous erasure, while also exploring their personal connections to this quintessential American Ritual.

SOURCES

Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin, 2007).

Kelly Lytle Hernández, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

K.W., “How Thanksgiving became a secular, national holiday from Pilgrim sighs to pumpkin pies,” November, 22, 2017, The Economist. <https://www.economist.com/the-economist- explains/2017/11/22/how-thanksgiving-became-a-secular-national-holiday> 

“Thanksgiving Day.” November 28, 1878, The New York Times. <https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1878/11/28/80737727.html?pageNumber=4>

“FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday.” <https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-establishes-modern-thanksgiving-holiday>

Maya Salam, “Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong,” November 21, 2017, The New York Times. <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/thanksgiving-myths-fact-check.html>

Rebekah Lowin, “Why Do We Celebrate Thanksgving–and Why Does It Fall on a Thursday,” July 24, 2020, Country Living. <https://www.countryliving.com/life/a40556/why-thanksgiving-on-the-fourth- thursday-november/>

Valerie Strauss, “Why we celebrate Thanksgiving every year. It isn’t what you think,” November 24, 2016, Washington Post. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/11/26/why-we-celebrate-thanksgiving-every-year-it-isnt-what-you-think/>

Olivia B. Waxman, “Thanksgiving Wasn’t Always a National Holiday. This Woman Made It Happen,” November 23, 2016, Time. <https://time.com/4577082/thanksgiving-holiday-history-origins/>

“Sarah Josepha Hale,” <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale#cite_note-26>

Judith Jones, The Pleasures of Cooking for One (Alfred Knopf, 2009).