David j silverman biography
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Skipped History
Ahead of turkey season, I spoke to Professor David J. Silverman about the marketing campaign that created Thanksgiving—and the white supremacist motivations that popularized the holiday. Professor Silverman is a historian of Native, colonial, and American racial history at George Washington University. He’s the author of This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.
A condensed transcript edited for clarity is below. Paying subscribers can also listen to the audio of the conversation:
Ben: Professor Silverman, thank you so much for being here.
DS: Thanks for having me.
Ben: Of course! Let’s begin by discussing when Thanksgiving became a holiday. The famed “first Thanksgiving” occurred in , but it took a lot longer for the country to commemorate the meal, is that right?
DS: Yes, as you allude, I think there's a widespread misconception that Thanksgiving was celebrated by colonists and then their white descendants in an unbroken chain from that event onward. That’s simply not true—Thanksgiving only became a national holiday in
Ben: Why did it take years for that to happen?
DS: Well, to be clear, people in old England had been celebrating “Thanksgivings” since time imm
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David J. Silverman author biography, plus links to books by David J. Silverman.
David J. Silverman
David J. Silverman is a professor at George Washington University, where he specializes in Native American, Colonial American, and American racial history. He is the author of Thundersticks, Red Brethren, Ninigret, and Faith and Boundaries. His essays have won major awards from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the New York Academy of History. He lives in Philadelphia.
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David J. Silverman
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Teaching Position: Assistant Academic, George General University, General, D.C., Current
Area of Research: Early American, Land Indian, trip Revolutionary Dweller History
Education: Ph.D. bring in History, University University,
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