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Thanksgiving and American Identity

Thanksgiving and American Identity

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 Thanksgiving and American Identity explores how a November feast became America's most powerful origin story. Hosted by AI narrator Alex Calder, this series examines the mythology surrounding Pilgrims and Native Americans, revealing how gratitude transformed into a test of national virtue and patriotic duty. We investigate the deliberate invention of Thanksgiving traditions by magazine editors, corporations, and politicians who understood that shared rituals build national identity. Through three episodes, we unpack the contradictions between American ideals and realities, asking what it means when a holiday built on historical erasure becomes our most cherished family gathering. It's an honest reckoning with tradition, memory, and what we owe the truth.
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  • Join AI host Alex Calder for Thanksgiving and American Identity!

    Join AI host Alex Calder for Thanksgiving and American Identity!
    Oct 2 2025
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    1 min
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    Episode Three reveals how Thanksgiving traditions were deliberately invented by magazine editors, corporations, and marketers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We explore Sarah Josepha Hale's campaign to standardize Thanksgiving through Godey's Lady's Book, the turkey and cranberry industries' role in creating the iconic menu, and how Macy's parade and NFL football became inseparable from the holiday. The episode examines how department stores, television networks, and advertisers transformed Thanksgiving into a commercial spectacle while making it feel ancient and inevitable. We discover that what feels like timeless tradition was actually constructed within living memory, and explore what it means that our most intimate family rituals are products of marketing campaigns, asking whether invented traditions can still be meaningful.
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    26 min
  • Thanksgiving and American Identity Gratitude and the American Character

    Thanksgiving and American Identity Gratitude and the American Character
    Oct 2 2025
    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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