The Real Story of Thanksgiving

It was three days before the Sabbath, in the year of our Lord 1621. In the solemn stillness of the autumn air, religious refugees gathered to give thanks to God. Indians would soon arrive, bringing peaceful contributions to what history would record as the first American Thanksgiving.

Oddly enough, however, modern Thanksgiving feasts and pageants fail to relate a complete account of the events leading up to this occasion. The purpose of this writing is to relate the whole story the way it unfolded in the wilderness of the New England frontier.

The Real Story of Thanksgiving, as detailed in this booklet by national-best-selling author W. Cleon Skousen who brought you The 5,000 Year Leap, rolls out the historical context of how principles of freedom triumphed over the failure of communism. These principles are timeless and effect our lives as much today as they did on that first American Thanksgiving Day of 1621.