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Today being , we can enjoy being treated to a host of historical commentaries & corrections

Gifted for you from behind the paywall, this important piece from 2021

Thanksgiving anniversary: Wampanoag Indians regret helping Pilgrims 400 years ago: Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621 Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/04/thanksgiving-anniversary-wampanoag-indians-pilgrims/?utm_campaign=wp_veatvoraciously&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_veatvoraciously

(gifted from behind the paywall)

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Teaching about & the & epitomizes the goals @AHAHistorians set for students, e.g. learning to see people of the past as both like us & very different, the latter demanding an act of sensitive imagination

https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning-the-history-discipline/2016-history-discipline-core

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/

2 pieces from the press:

David Hall, Peace, Love and Puritanism

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/opinion/24hall.html

Maggie Philips The Original Puritans
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/original-puritans-thanksgiving

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8. Recognize the provisional nature of knowledge, the disciplinary preference for complexity, and the comfort with ambiguity that history requires. a. Welcome contradictory perspectives and data, which enable us to provide more accurate accounts and construct stronger arguments. b. Describe past events from multiple perspectives. c. Explain and justify multiple causes of complex events and phenomena using conflicting sources. d. Identify, summarize, appraise, and synthesize other scholars’ historical arguments. 4. Apply the range of skills it takes to decode the historical record because of its incomplete, complex, and contradictory nature. a. Consider a variety of historical sources for credibility, position, perspective, and relevance. b. Evaluate historical arguments, explaining how they were constructed and might be improved. c. Revise analyses and narratives when new evidence requires it.

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