Today I Found Out

How Thanksgiving Became a National Holiday (2015x178)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Kas 25, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Inventing the TV Dinner https://youtu.be/8C86EdBfNgo?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan The Celestial Message in a Bottle https://youtu.be/1UMrdGausDs?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: Sarah Josepha Hale, author of Mary Had a Little Lamb, was largely responsible for the establishment of the United States’ Thanksgiving Holiday. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/sarah-hale-author-of-mary-had-a-little-lamb-was-largely-responsible-for-the-establishment-of-the-united-states-thanksgiving-holiday/ Sources: http://www.essortment.com/all/thanksgivinghis_rxgy.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Hale__Sarah_Josepha.html http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/hale.html http://www.classicallibrary.org/lincoln/thanksgiving.htm