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World Service,5 mins

Thanksgiving - the tool to unite a divided America?

World Update

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The holiday established in the US to mark the 1620 landing of the Mayflower in Plymouth, Massachusetts, has a complicated history. What does it stand for in these challenging political times? Dan speaks to pilgrim historian Donna Curtin and Mayflower descendant Scott Standish Aldrich (Image: The Mayflower pilgrims landing in New England on 19th November 1620. Original painting by Charles Lucy. Photo credit: Three Lions/Getty Images)

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