Troy Bickham
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 23 Nov
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expands west.
Different states have different days for Thanksgiving.
And it doesn't become a national holiday really until about the time of the Civil War.
And that's largely the work of Sarah Hale,
She's primarily known as Mary Had a Little Lamb.
And so, yeah.
Yeah, she wrote it.
She was a children's writer and she was the editor of Godey's, which was a ladies' magazine that was very wildly distributed, sort of the Reader's Digest for women of the day.
And so she and a number of people in the early 19th century were kind of looking around for days to celebrate traditional family values, right?
So the idea that Americans were Christian, family-oriented, and also the idea of Thanksgiving being a holiday of unity because the country's increasingly divided.
She starts a letter-writing campaign.
Women start writing in to their congressmen to try to make it a national holiday.
It doesn't really get going.
Until the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signs it into law in 1863.
That's really when Thanksgiving, the way that we might imagine it today, really starts, really takes off, like I said, after the Civil War.
And that's the same time.
It's not until 1870 that Christmas and the Fourth of July become national holidays, too.
So Thanksgiving's first.
And by that time, the turkey had become the major celebration bird.
It placed itself really well.
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