Thanksgiving and American Identity Gratitude and the American Character

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Episode Two investigates how gratitude became a weapon of social control and a test of American virtue. We examine presidential proclamations and Thanksgiving sermons that framed thankfulness as civic duty, exploring how gratitude rhetoric justified inequality during the Gilded Age and silenced dissent throughout American history. From Abraham Lincoln's wartime proclamation to Cold War anti-communism, from prosperity gospel preachers to Civil Rights resistance, we trace how calls for gratitude often masked demands for silence. The episode reveals the difference between performative national gratitude and genuine thankfulness that demands justice, asking whether America can practice gratitude that acknowledges both blessings and their costs without erasing the violence that made prosperity possible.

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