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Why Thanksgiving tells a story of America's pluralism

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imageWhat is the history of the Thanksgiving dinner?Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, Library of Congress

Thanksgiving has been a focus of autumn grade-school curriculumfor a hundred years.

Because of its paradoxical combination of tradition and invention, its appeals to the past and to the future, its ancestor worship and its acceptance of diversity,...

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