Thanksgiving Origins
The first Thanksgiving was not the harmonious gathering often portrayed; it involved survivors from both the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe, who had both faced devastating losses. The formal establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday took decades, influenced by a determined woman who lobbied multiple presidents before Lincoln finally declared it in 1863. The holiday has undergone changes, including a controversial date shift by Roosevelt in 1939, before being solidified on the fourth Thursday of November in 1941.In this clip
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