The Thanksgiving story most of us hear is about friendship and unity. And that's what Sarah Josepha Hale had on her mind when she sat down to write a letter to President Lincoln in 1863, deep into ...

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Charity at home and overseas is America’s Thanksgiving story. At Thanksgiving in 1947, about 10,000 orphans in Europe each got a big surprise: a food package from America.

So, that part of the beloved story of the first Thanksgiving was accurate. But it wasn’t long before the newcomers began evangelizing and enslaving the Native Americans.

But Thanksgiving, and the broader American origin story, remain caught in the messy narrative middle. “We don’t have an ending of racism in America. It’s still here,” he says.