across the country tomorrow, you ll likely gather around the table with people that matter to you. the images of thanksgiving are as baked into our collective imagination as the best pumpkin pie. we all grew up with images of the pilgrims on plymouth rock and their iconic hats. for many of us it s as much a part of the holiday as the turkey. what you think you know about thanksgiving may be a myth. let s get a side of truth with historian kenneth c. davis, author of the don t know much about history franchise, welcome back, what s abraham lincoln got to do with it. it was in 1863, michael and good evening and happy thanksgiving to you. 1863 that abraham lincoln signed what was the first this a series of presidential proclamations
phillips war. these are the pieces of the story we often leave out, but facts are stubborn things as john adams once said, and a great nation should not hide its history. we should understand the full story. facts really are what give us the truth, and the truth sets us free. amen. hey, as frustrating as things are today from political polarization, i guess it was worse in 1939 as i ve learned from you because that year we couldn t even agree on what day was thanksgiving. kenneth c. davis, thank you so much, i appreciate you coming back. have a great day tomorrow. happy thanksgiving to you, michael, good night. and to you, good night. we ll be right back right after this.
historian kenneth c. davis, author of the don t know much about history franchise, welcome back. what s abraham lincoln got to do with it? it was in 1863, michael and good evening and happy thanksgiving to you. 1863 that abraham lincoln signed what was the first this a series of presidential proclamations setting thanksgiving on the last thursday in november. that would change. this is the first in what is now an unbroken string. lincoln s proclamation coming in the midst of the civil war when there was very little to be happy about or to be thankful for is quite an extraordinary note that we should remember today. that even in the midst of very very disastrous situation, we can all be grateful. when i was a kid, my parents took my brother and me to plymouth rock in new england. i ll never forget it.
by Mickey Z. / July 18th, 2021
The need to possess Cuba is the oldest issue in U.S. foreign policy. Noam Chomsky, Excerpted from
Rogue States, 2000
When you watch the latest news stories about unrest in Cuba, are you relying on critical thought to process them, or are you lazily falling back on decades of deeply embedded propaganda about Castro, communism, etc.? Are you familiar with your country’s history with Cuba? Are you open to accepting that God’s Country™ may have committed atrocities far worse than anything you’ve been told about the Cuban regime?
If you claim to hate communism, do you ever ask yourself why? Is it based solely on official textbooks, news stories, and flag-waving speeches by U.S. politicians? Do you know what communism actually is? Can you differentiate between communism, socialism, Marxism, etc.? Do you know for sure that genuine communism has ever actually existed in practice?
School Libraries Are the Bedrock of Freedom By Joann and Kenneth C. Davis | May 07, 2021
Do you remember getting your first library card and borrowing your first book? For many of us, it was a rite of passage guided by a human search engine a librarian.
In school, that librarian did more than shush the loudmouths, straighten the stacks, and stamp our books. The school librarian helped with homework, taught us kids how to “look it up,” and opened pathways to critical thinking. Librarians fulfilled the vision of 25-year-old Benjamin Franklin, who established the Library Company, America’s first lending library, in Philadelphia in 1731. Initially a subscription library in which members paid a fee, the Library Company was “crowdsourced” the first members pooled their own books to share with one another.