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Time for a Tree and a Rope
published on November 28, 2016

Jim Crow is again in the news and in the media on a regular basis, with recent sightings on state judicial and educational perches.
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by Hayley Wood
published on November 24, 2014

So wrote Puritan separatist Edward Winslow from Plymouth Colony in a letter to a friend in 1621, and this is the earliest known written account of what constitutes American Thanksgiving in the imaginations of people worldwide. Not that there’s universal agreement on the date of America’s first Thanksgiving. In a very good essay on the history of Thanksgiving, the Plimoth Planation website notes
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