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Modern Thanksgiving, Part One: A Culture War
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Oct 28, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Today Thanksgiving is considered a largely innocuous holiday, centered on food and family. In the US, people across the country get together on the same Thursday in November every year, breaking bread, practicing thankfulness -- and, sometimes, suffering through awkward conversations with family. But this wasn't always the case. In part one of this two-part series, Ben and Noel explore how the modern Thanksgiving came to be, and why some in the south genuinely believed it was a foray in a larger culture war.
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Released:
Oct 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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