Wampanoag Thanksgiving

Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 8 p.m.

b'Wampanoag Thanksgiving
Guest:\\xa0David J. Silverman, Professor of History at George Washington University, and the author of "This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving"
The Wampanoag tribe had a long history of dealing with Europeans before the Pilgrims, and the feast of Thanksgiving, we\'ve come to know, is largely a myth. Making repairs to our misunderstandings of history can strengthen our collective American house.\\xa0
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The Untold History of the Aztecs
Guest: Camilla Townsend, Professor of History at Rutgers University, and author of "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs"
History is written by the victors, especially in the colonization of indigenous peoples. But the Aztecs wrote down their own history and it neither began nor ended with the Spanish conquest, and it\\u2019s much more complex than the story most of us know.'