Susan Hanssen on Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims and Puritans, and What’s Still Left to Conserve

In this episode: 

• Professor Susan Hanssen joins the podcast to discuss the quintessentially American holiday of Thanksgiving and its history
• how the Puritans and Pilgrims fit into the British political and cultural experience, how they end up in America, and how they shape America today
• what remains in the American project as a “remnant” that’s powerful and worth conserving today

Texts Mentioned: 

• Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 by George Washington
• William Bradford’s Journal
• “A Model of Christian Charity” by John Winthrop
• Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
• Proclamation of Thanksgiving by Abraham Lincoln
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• The Mayflower Compact
• A Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States by John Adams
• The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
• The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
• The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
• “How America’s Adams Family Inherited and Preserved the Pilgrim Mind” by Susan Hanssen

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