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Forgotten America

Summary

Conclude the course with a focus on Thanksgiving, America's greatest feast. Explore the holiday's roots, which stretch back to the colonial period and Civil War. Then, turn your attention to Thanksgiving's transformation in the 20th century, from the South's reluctant embrace of a Yankee holiday to FDR's controversial "Franksgiving."

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