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Reading Room / Our Thanksgiving Menu at the Reading Room

Our Thanksgiving Menu at the Reading Room

By: Sarah Skwire Nov 24, 2021




Pull up a chair and feast on this menu of Thanksgiving reading from the OLL!

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Appetizers

The beginnings of the Puritans in America: The Mayflower Compact (1620) 

 Edward Taylor's prayerful poem: "Huswifery"  (c. 1680)

Entrees

John Winthrop's "Little Speech on Liberty" (1645)

George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789)


Desserts

Benjamin Franklin cooks a turkey with electricity (1748)

David Hume on the turkey (1739)


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