Ahead of Thanksgiving, I spoke with Professor Anne Blue Wills about the invention of the holiday as we know it today. In her article, “Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving,” and in conversation, Professor Wills chronicles how nineteenth-century women’s magazines —and one magazine editor in particular — created contemporary Thanksgiving. 

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