| We hope that you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday last week. Leading off our curation is Carson Holloway’s essay that rejects the popular claim that America is a fundamentally racist nation. “It seems obvious, from even a cursory glance at our nation’s history,” Holloway writes, “that most of the work of making America better has been carried out by people like Lincoln, Douglass, and King, who believed it was fundamentally good to begin with.” Susan Hanssen argues that the Adams family – presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, along with Charles Francis Adams and Henry Adams – should be thought of as “America’s First Dynasty” because of their adherence to the Pilgrims’ understanding of man’s fallen human nature and rejection of the claim that man can build the heavenly city on earth. Daniel J. Mahoney reviews Joshua’s Mitchell’s new book, “American Awakening,” which explores identity politics in our culture. “With impressive lucidity,” Mahoney writes that Mitchell “painstakingly examines a new secular religion that is profoundly indebted to Christianity while having ‘no place for the God who judges or the God who forgives.’” RealClear American Civics editor Mike Sabo explores the origins of Thanksgiving with the help of Plimoth Patuxet Museums (PPM). It not only offers a wealth of digital resources but also open-air museums populated by reenactors that include recreations of Plymouth Colony, the Historic Patuxet Homsesite, the Pimoth Grist Mill, and the newly renovated Mayflower II, a reproduction of the original ship that brought the Pilgrims to New England’s shores in 1620. This year, PPM celebrated the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact, the cornerstone of the foundation of American self-government. Richard Pickering, PPM’s deputy executive director, shares the Pilgrims’ story in front of the Mayflower II. Original Posts Mike Sabo, RealClearWire Michael Warren, RealClearPublicAffairs Essential Reading Susan Hanssen, RealClearPublicAffairs In his account of the 1620 voyage of the Mayflower, William Bradford wrote that “they knew they were pilgrimes, & looked not... Yoram Ettinger, RealClearPublicAffairs Four hundred years ago, in late 1620, the 102 pilgrims of the Mayflower landed in Plymouth Rock, which they considered the modern-day... In the News David Schaefer, RealClearEducation Joshua Lawson, The Federalist Shanon J. Fitzgerald, Law & Liberty Tara Ross, RealClearPolitics David Roach, Christianity Today Dave Roos, History.com Richard Reinsch, Public Discourse Yuval Levin & Adam White, National Review David Tucker, Teaching American History Daniel J. Mahoney, RealClearBooks Peter W. Wood, New York Post John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations Angela Sailor, Daily Signal Louise Dubé, Medium Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal Richard Pickering, CSPAN Plimoth Patuxet deputy executive director Richard Pickering told the story of the Pilgrims' Atlantic crossing in 1620 from Plymouth... Chris Flannery, American Story Every president since Lincoln has issued a Thanksgiving proclamation every year, but on September 25, 1789, when the U.S.... Plimoth Patuxet Museums On November 11, 2020 Plimoth Patuxet is commemorating the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact. The 1620... Melanie Kirkpatrick, PragerU The very first Thanksgiving happened almost 400 years ago – long before the nation was born. How did it evolve into America’s quintessential... Carl Cannon's Great American Stories On this date 185 years ago, as Halley's comet induced Americans to look skyward in awe, Mark Twain was born ... Good morning, it's Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, the day of the week I relate a quote meant to be inspirational ... On a cold, gray autumn Monday afternoon 57 years ago today, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. ... | 
