BOOKS

Carla Gardina Pestana: The World of Plymouth Plantation.

David J. Silverman: This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.

ARTICLES

Megan Barney: Disrupting Public Memory: The Story of the National Day of Mourning.

Philip Deloria: The Invention of Thanksgiving: Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

Karl Jacoby: Which Thanksgiving?

Ariel Knoebel: For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression: In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war.

Peter C. Mancall: The first Thanksgiving is a key chapter in America’s origin story – but what happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more.

Christopher Petrella: How the fourth Thursday in November officially became Thanksgiving: The racist roots of our national celebration.

David J. Silverman: The Vicious Reality Behind the Thanksgiving Myth: If Americans continue to insist on associating the holiday with Pilgrims and Indians, the least we can do is try to get the story straight.

Karin Wulf: Why the Myths of Plymouth Dominate the American Imagination.