The holiday of Thanksgiving exists more as myth than as history for most Americans, and is doubtless even less understood abroad. Names like Squanto and Miles Standish belong now to a cartoon caricature rather than to human beings. Perhaps it's time to peel back the legends and explore what really happened.
The Dangerous History Podcast Episode 126 explores the history of Squanto from his early life among his Wampanoag tribe to his tragic death along with the trials and tribulations, personal ambitions, and conflicts he encountered.
What were the Pilgrims really like? They were a sect of Puritans, and as H.L. Mencken wrote, “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” What happens when Puritans confront people who live peacefully according to different principles the Puritans dislike? Well, Episode 42 of the Dangerous History Podcast explores what really happened at Merrymount colony when the Plymouth Pilgrims decided there was a problem.
Ben Stone of the Bad Quaker Podcast takes a somewhat more antagonistic approach to tearing apart the mythology of the Pilgrims due to the historical conflict between Quakers and Puritans, the latter routinely using violence against the former because the former wouldn't comply with the latter's authoritarianism. Bad Quaker Podcast Episode 55: Thanksgiving and Lying Thieving Pilgrim Commies can be heard here.
Edit: 
If you like this post, please comment, follow, and resteem!
