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Thanksgiving & the Pilgrims | Susan Hanssen
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32:11Now PlayingSusan Hanssen on Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims and Puritans, and What’s Still Left to Conserve
In this episode:
- Professor Susan Hanssen joins the podcast to discuss the quintessentially American holiday of Thanksgiving and its history
- how the Puritans and Pilgrims fit into the British political and cultural experience, how they end up in America, and how they shape America today
- what remains in the American project as a “remnant” that’s powerful and worth conserving today
Texts Mentioned:
- Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 by George Washington
- William Bradford’s Journal
- “A Model of Christian Charity” by John Winthrop
- Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
- Proclamation of Thanksgiving by Abraham Lincoln
- Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- The Mayflower Compact
- A Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States by John Adams
- The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
- The Conservative Mindby Russell Kirk
- The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
- “How America’s Adams Family Inherited and Preserved the Pilgrim Mind” by Susan Hanssen
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