For years now, many educators have attempted to teach about Thanksgiving with more historical accuracy than the sanitized version about a 1621 feast that brought Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans together for the start of a lovely annual tradition. Some schools have even replaced Thanksgiving celebrations with harvest festivals.
Wheaton College historian Robert Tracy McKenzie wrote in the New York Times a few years ago that the question about how to teach Thanksgiving to kids was the wrong one. The better question: Should it be taught?
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