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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1621   English and Wampanoag join in a harvest festival.    
1827   Sarah Josepha Hale, "Northwood"   Thanksgiving
1847   Sarah Hale, ed. of Godey's begins Thanksgiving campaign For samples of Hale's Thanksgiving editorials, go to "The Godey's Lady's Book" link at the University of Vermont.  
1858   Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. poetry, pilgrims" plymouth
1863   Lincoln declares Thanksgiving a national holiday    

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