Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans together warrants our attention. But as a historian of ...
Just imagine it’s 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Pilgrims and Wampanoag people are celebrating a successful harvest with a three-day feast. You’d think turkey would be the star of the show, ...
Ever since the ancient Romans decided to honor the agricultural goddess Flora with lewd spectacles in the Circus Maximus, the ...