How far from reality is the version of Thanksgiving that portrays Pilgrims and Native Americans feasting together?

That's based on the 1621 harvest celebration, not a thanksgiving. From the colonists' point of view, a thanksgiving was a religious observance, and they never would have had native people there. The Pilgrims' existence seemed fairly bleak.

Did they have any fun? Pastimes, entertainment, and games were not forbidden, but the place for them was sharply limited. Idleness and irreverence were dangerous things.

Click here to return to top of page. Change at the Middle East Studies Association Is Coming ... Slowly (posted 11-06-03) Jonathan Calt Harris, writing in frontpagemag.com (Nov. 6, 2003): The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) meets for its annual conference on November 6-9 in Anchorage, Alaska. The event displays the work of hundreds of Middle East specialists, and thus offers a good barometer of the state of the field of Middle East studies.

It has come under criticism of late for its many failings. Martin Kramer showed in his book Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle ... more.

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