CBS News Thanksgiving Special 2023 - Hour 3

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The most famous woman in America in the 1800's created the national holiday of Thanksgiving. But somehow we have lost our knowledge of her many contributions to American culture from Mary Had a Little Lamb to the Christmas Tree. Biographer Melani Kirkpatrick shares the story of Sarah Josepha Hale. And, you think you know of our Thanksgiving traditions but actually they have morphed over the decades. And what we hold most dear might actually be a recent innovation. Historian Matthew Dennis explains.

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