30+ History.com Thanksgiving Pictures. Learn about the history of thanksgiving, facts about the mayflower and the pilgrims, and more. Thanksgiving may be america's most beloved national holiday, but its history is all over the place.
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Similarly named festival holidays occur in germany and japan. I t was not what they had planned. It is sometimes called american thanksgiving (outside the united states) to distinguish it from the canadian holiday of the same name.it originated as a harvest festival, and to this day the centerpiece of thanksgiving celebrations remains thanksgiving dinner.
I t was not what they had planned.
Watch a brief video on the history of the first thanksgiving meal. Most stories of thanksgiving history start with the harvest celebration of the pilgrims and the native americans that took place in the autumn of 1621. The area surrounding the site of the first thanksgiving, now known as southeastern massachusetts and eastern rhode island, had been the home of the wampanoag people for over 12,000 years, and had been visited by other european settlers before the arrival of the mayflower in 1620. I t was not what they had planned.
