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This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. There is no holiday more American than Thanksgiving – and perhaps none with origins so shrouded in comforting ...

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on Nov. 24, 2016. We are resurfacing this story as part of our ongoing bicentennial coverage. These stories tell us about key moments in Maine’s history that ...

There is no holiday more American than Thanksgiving – and perhaps none with origins so shrouded in comforting myths. The story is simple enough. In 1620 a group of English Protestant dissenters known ...

Wendy Warren, an assistant professor of history at Princeton University, specializes in the history of colonial North America and the early modern Atlantic world. She joined the University in 2010 ...

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