Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict,...

Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.

Mrs. Tappleton gets up early to prepare the turkey. Mr. Tappleton sets off to buy the pies. Kenny makes the salad, and Jenny mashes the potatoes. Then all the relatives arrive for an enormous Thanksgiving dinner. But this year nothing sees to go right. First the turkey slides down the icy hill and into the pond--PLOP! PLOP! Then the bakery sells out of pies. f It looks like it's going to be a pretty bleak holiday...until Grandmother reminds everyone...

Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey.

Arthur goes to pick up the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner but comes back with a 266-pound chicken.

An introduction to the history and customs of Thanksgiving.

Rhyming verses trace the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving Day.

At Thanksgiving time, children express their gratitude for the people and things in their lives.

As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Turkey nervously makes a series of costumes, disguising himself as other farm animals in hopes that he can avoid being served as Thanksgiving dinner.

A big red dog starts out early Thanksgiving morning to spend the day with his mother, little suspecting the difficulties he will have in reaching her.