When we sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, we think we know what weâre commemorating. But if an actual Pilgrim were to attend your Thanksgiving, chances are heâd be stunned, and a little disgusted, by what he saw. In this episode, historian James McWilliams discusses why the Puritans would have turned up their noses at our traditional Thanksgiving foods. Religion scholar Anne Blue Wills explains the nineteenth-century origins of our modern holiday, and one woman's campaign to fix it on the national calendar. And legendary NFL quarterback Roger Staubach describes what it was like to spend every Thanksgiving on the football field.

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