Review of Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo, by Jack David Eller (London: Reaktion Books, 2018)
… Driving a colleague to the airport this Thanksgiving break, I took advantage of my captive audience … from Eller’s mythbusting. He shows that the first Thanksgiving was little more than a harvest festival , and … recreation that characterizes the holiday today. In fact, Thanksgiving really traces its modern origins back to the …