The Woman Behind Thanksgiving with Melanie Kirkpatrick

22/11/2022 29 min Episodio 20

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode of the Trust Your Voice podcast, host Sylvie Légère sat down with Melanie Kirkpatrick, writer-journalist, author of three books: Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman; Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience (2016) and Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad (2012), and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, to enlighten you about women and the history of Thanksgiving.
In this conversation, Sylvie and Melanie discuss:

Story of Sarah Hales and her influence
The history of Thanksgiving
Condition of Women in the 1800s
How Sarah advocated for Thanksgiving

Get to know Melanie more on her website http://www.MelanieKirkpatrick.com.
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