In 1859, Sarah Josepha Hale wrote an editorial advocating for Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Why?
“Everything that contributes to bind us in one vast empire together, to quicken the sympathy that makes us feel…we are one family…is worthy of being cherished.”
That was her hope for America.
“Everything that contributes to bind us in one vast empire together, to quicken the sympathy that makes us feel…we are one family…is worthy of being cherished.”
That was her hope for America.
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So the (un)civil war started a couple years later.
Sell out