Tags: pilgrims
Can Johnny and Sally Handle the Truth About Thanksgiving?

Jonathan L. Walton.

Maybe it's time to stop framing European conquest as dinner party between Pilgrims and Indians.

Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates: The Problem with Popularization

Kathryn Lofton.

While the history of popularization is a history of regular folk learning about other regular revolutionizing folk and imitating them, comic book histories like The Wordy Shipmates do their part in ensuring that the next generation knows more about Beyoncé than Byzantium.