Susan Hanssen on Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims and Puritans, and What’s Still Left to Conserve

In this episode: Professor Susan Hanssen joins the podcast to discuss the quintessentially American holiday of Thanksgiving and its historyhow the Puritans and Pilgrims fit into the British political and cultural experience, how they end up in America, and how they shape America todaywhat remains in the American project as a “remnant” that’s powerful and worth conserving todayTexts Mentioned: Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 by George WashingtonWilliam Bradford’s Journal“A Model of Christian Charity” by John WinthropNotes on the State of Virginia by Thomas JeffersonProclamation of Thanksgiving by Abraham LincolnReflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund BurkeThe Mayflower CompactA Defence of the Constitutions of the Government of the United States by John AdamsThe Captive Mind by Czeslaw MiloszThe Conservative Mind by Russell KirkThe Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk“How America’s Adams Family Inherited and Preserved the Pilgrim Mind” by Susan HanssenBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events