Book Description
Introduces the history and traditions of the Thanksgiving holiday, including the original fall harvest celebration, how it became an official U.S. holiday, and how people celebrate it today.
Author : Sally Lee
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1491460970
Introduces the history and traditions of the Thanksgiving holiday, including the original fall harvest celebration, how it became an official U.S. holiday, and how people celebrate it today.
Author : Robert Tracy McKenzie
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830895663
Veteran historian Robert Tracy McKenzie sets aside centuries of legend and political stylization to present the mixed blessing that was the first Thanksgiving. Like good narrative history, McKenzie's critical account of our Pilgrim ancestors confronts us with our own unresolved issues of national and spiritual identity.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author :
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0679802185
Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.
Author : Robyn Gioia
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1561643890
Provides an account of America's first real Thanksgiving, celebrated by the Spanish and the native Timucua in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565 with a feast that may have included a pork stew, wild turkey, corn, and beans.
Author : Melanie Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1641772131
We all know the story of Thanksgiving. Or do we? This uniquely American holiday has a rich and little known history beyond the famous feast of 1621. In Thanksgiving, award-winning author Melanie Kirkpatrick journeys through four centuries of history, giving us a vivid portrait of our nation's best-loved holiday. Drawing on newspaper accounts, private correspondence, historical documents, and cookbooks, Thanksgiving brings to life the full history of the holiday and what it has meant to generations of Americans. Many famous figures walk these pages—Washington, who proclaimed our first Thanksgiving as a nation amid controversy about his Constitutional power to do so; Lincoln, who wanted to heal a divided nation sick of war when he called for all Americans—North and South—to mark a Thanksgiving Day; FDR, who set off a debate on state's rights when he changed the traditional date of Thanksgiving. Ordinary Americans also play key roles in the Thanksgiving story—the New England Indians who boycott Thanksgiving as a Day of Mourning; Sarah Josepha Hale, the nineteenth-century editor and feminist who successfully campaigned for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday; the 92nd Street Y in New York City, which founded Giving Tuesday, an online charity established in the long tradition of Thanksgiving generosity. Kirkpatrick also examines the history of Thanksgiving football and, of course, Thanksgiving dinner. While the rites and rituals of the holiday have evolved over the centuries, its essence remains the same: family and friends feasting together in a spirit of gratitude to God, neighborliness, and hospitality. Thanksgiving is Americans' oldest tradition. Kirkpatrick's enlightening exploration offers a fascinating look at the meaning of the holiday that we gather together to celebrate on the fourth Thursday of November. With Readings for Thanksgiving Day designed to be read aloud around the table.
Author : Alice Dalgliesh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442465522
In this festive Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages. Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things get a little more cramped when their baby brother Oceanus is born during the passage. However, when they arrive, there are even worse challenges to face as the Pilgrims are subjected to hunger, cold, and sickness that put their small colony in great danger. With the help of the Native Americans though, they might just be able to survive their first year in this strange land—and have a November harvest to celebrate for generations!
Author : Don Bolognese
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1623347637
Enjoy this illustrated story of the first Thanksgiving….and then learn to draw it yourself!
Author : Sally Lee
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1491461012
Young readers learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Thanksgiving.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN :