Happy Thanksgiving!
For a while now I’ve been posting this well-known Thomas Nast cartoon from 1868, “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner.” This year, though, I’d like to direct my readers to Pat Young’s detailed discussion of the work and the symbolism in it — there’s a lot there you may not have noticed.
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Dead Confederates, A Civil War Era Blog 
Happy Thanksgiving!
Even then, we knew which direction America had to take to become a “more perfect Union.”