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It’s Like Visually Delicious Stuffing For Your Brain: An Animated Thanksgiving History Lesson

A lot of (United States of) Americans view religious freedom as the pillar on which the U.S. was founded. But too much reality gets lost in our patriotic reverence, including the real reason for the earliest English colony (jump to 1:03); why the Pilgrims didn’t all die and why we celebrate Thanksgiving (jump to 6:32);…

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